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The SOC files: Rumble in the jungle or APT41’s new target in Africa

SecureList

This is a Chinese-speaking cyberespionage group known for targeting organizations across multiple sectors, including telecom and energy providers, educational institutions, healthcare organizations and IT energy companies in at least 42 countries. cmd.exe /c reg save HKLM\SAM C:\Windows emp emp_3.log We detail these tools below.

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IT threat evolution Q3 2023

SecureList

DroxiDat, a lean variant of SystemBC that acts as a system profiler and simple SOCKS5-capable bot, was detected at an electric utility company. The C2 (command and control) infrastructure for the incident involved an energy-related domain, ‘powersupportplan[.]com’, com’, that resolved to an already suspicious IP host.

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China-Nexus Nation State Actors Exploit SAP NetWeaver (CVE-2025-31324) to Target Critical Infrastructures

Security Boulevard

CL-STA-0048 Activity: Interactive Reverse Shell and DNS Beaconing on SAP Environments On April 28, 2025, EclecticIQ analysts observed command-and-control (C2) traffic originating from compromised SAP NetWeaver systems. Resolved IPs via DNS: Figure 7 - Resolved IP address in DNS A record. 53 at 08:49:00 AM. 54.77.139[.]23

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