MANILA, Philippines - Malware traced by a security firm to China has been discovered to have spied on the Philippine government and other parties related to the territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea. “The common denominator among the targets selected is that they have some relation to the territorial dispute revolving around the South China Sea,” said the cyber security firm. In a report released last week, Finland-based cyber security firm F-Secure identified the malware as NanHaiShu (translated as South China Sea rat), a Remote Access Trojan that can access information from infected computers to its command server. “The threat actors behind this malware target government and private-sector organizations that were directly or indirectly involved in the international territorial dispute centering on the South China Sea,” said F-Secure in a statement. Based on these points, we believe that the threat actor is of Chinese origin,” it added.

Source: Philippine Star August 06, 2016 16:27 UTC