Sophos reveals 5-year battle with Chinese hackers attacking network devices

Sophos disclosed today a series of reports dubbed "Pacific Rim" that detail how the cybersecurity company has been sparring with Chinese threat actors for over 5 years as they increasingly targeted networking devices worldwide, including those from Sophos.

Sophos believes that many of the zero-day vulnerabilities are developed by Chinese researchers who not only share them with vendors, but also the Chinese government and associated state-sponsored threat actors.

While many of these attacks put cybersecurity researchers on the defensive, Sophos also had the opportunity to go on the offensive, planting custom implants on devices that were known to be compromised.

These implants allowed Sophos to collect valuable data about the threat actors, including a UEFI bootkit that was observed being deployed to a networking device.

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