The threat actor tracked as Mustang Panda has refined its malware arsenal to include new tools in order to facilitate data exfiltration and the deployment of next-stage payloads, according to new findings from Trend Micro.
The cybersecurity firm, which is monitoring the activity cluster under the name Earth Preta, said it observed “the propagation of PUBLOAD via a variant of the worm HIUPAN.”
The threat actor tracked as Mustang Panda has refined its malware arsenal to include new tools in order to facilitate data exfiltration and the deployment of next-stage payloads, according to new findings from Trend Micro.
The cybersecurity firm, which is monitoring the activity cluster under the name Earth Preta, said it observed “the propagation of PUBLOAD via a variant of the worm HIUPAN.”