China went to 'EggStreme' lengths to attack Philippines • The Register

‘EggStreme’ framework looks like the sort of thing Beijing would find handy in its ongoing territorial beefs Infosec outfit Bitdefender says it’s spotted a strain of in-memory malware that looks like the work of Chinese advanced persistent threat groups that wanted to achieve persistent access at a “military company” in the Philippines.

According to an analysis released on Wednesday, someone cooked up tools called the “EggStreme Framework” that Bitdefender researchers found “operates with a clear, multi-stage flow designed to establish a resilient foothold on compromised systems.”

The firm’s researchers aren’t sure how attackers infect targets with EggStreme, but spotted a server running it and found multiple components that share characteristics and therefore suggest a sophisticated dev