Singaporean critical infrastructure organisations were noted by the country's Coordinating Minister for National Security K. Shanmugam to have been subjected to a significant and ongoing attack campaign.
Purportedly launched by the Chinese state-backed cyberespionage hacking operation UNC3886, The Record said that additional details regarding UNC3886's alleged intrusions against Singapore's critical infrastructure were not provided by Shanmugam, who only stated the possible ripple effect of critical industry targeting.
Such a development comes after UNC3886 was reported by Mandiant researchers to have targeted Juniper routers with custom backdoors. Similar attacks have been deployed by UNC3886 against VMware and Fortinet network appliances.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
