MirrorFace updates toolset, expands attain to Europe

The group’s Operation AkaiRyū begins with focused spearphishing emails that use the upcoming World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, as a lure

18 Mar 2025

The China-aligned MirrorFace APT group has focused a Central European diplomatic institute, marking the primary time this China-aligned APT group has tried to infiltrate an entity in Europe, ESET analysis has discovered.

In line with its earlier campaigns, Operation AkaiRyū (which is Japanese for RedDragon) begins with fastidiously crafted spearphishing emails that, if profitable, try to leverage authentic purposes and instruments to put in malware.

What else is there to know concerning the marketing campaign’s ways, strategies, and procedures? Be taught from ESET Chief Safety Evangelist Tony Anscombe within the video and ensure to learn the full blogpost.