Dark Pink, a new actor group is out there

Hello folks,

While this group to date has ben targeting Asian countries, they could in fact change their minds and attack whomever they wish.

This is why I am bringing you the article titled Dark Pink, a newly discovered hacking campaign, threatens Southeast Asian military, government organizations.

The fact it is targetting Government should probably not be surprising. Our own government can’t even get half of their cyber security straight, so why not target them?

Here is one of the paragraphs of this article. It states:

The so-called “Dark Pink” campaign surged in the second half of 2022 and has, to date, been responsible for seven successful attacks, Group-IB researchers Andrey Polovinkin and Albert Priego said in a detailed analysis. Its primary goals seem to be corporate espionage, document theft, sound capture from the
microphones of infected devices and data exfiltration from messengers, according to the researchers’ analysis.

While some researchers could not attribute this to an existing group, a Chinese research group which is linked the campaign to Southeast Asia.

Whose to say that whoever this group is, they don’t target another country, group of people or even do something that research hasn’t thought of yet?

There are lots of links from within this article, so I’m not going to try and quote and take apart this word for word. Let’s just learn that this is out there, we need to be on guard for any type of attack, no matter where it comes from.

Stay safe, stay well, and learn.