PHILIPPINE NUCLEAR AGENCY AND NAVAL CONTRACTOR TARGETED BY SUSPECTED CHINESE-SPEAKING OPERATOR USING KNOWN VULNERABILITIES

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Researchers found an exposed Amsterdam server staging tools and stolen Philippine data. Custom scripts abused ownCloud CVE-2023-49105, impersonating known users through unsigned WebDAV URLs. The recovered data included reactor records, radiation-safety files, employee PII, travel documents, BitLocker keys, KeePass data, and AxCrypt files. Logs referenced roughly 9 GB taken from the nuclear agency. A naval contractor's WordPress site was breached through LiteSpeed Cache CVE-2024-28000 and XML-RPC password guessing. The server also hosted Sliver, Metasploit, Mettle, and a loader that fetched a second-stage payload.