China-Nexus Hackers Use Backdoored PAM Modules for Credential Theft and Authentication Bypass

A sophisticated China-linked threat actor known as Velvet Ant has been running a long-term cyber intrusion inside a major organization’s internal network, going undetected for nearly a decade. The campaign, now called Operation Highland, revealed a level of patience and technical depth rarely seen in publicly documented intrusions. What made this attack particularly alarming was […] The post China-Nexus Hackers Use Backdoored PAM Modules for Credential Theft and Authentication Bypass appeared first on Cyber Security News.