Ethereal Panda

ETHEREAL PANDA is a China-based targeted intrusion adversary, likely active since at least 2021. ETHEREAL PANDA operations primarily focus on entities in the academic, technology, and telecommunications sectors in Taiwan. ETHEREAL PANDA relies heavily on SoftEther VPN executables to maintain access to victim networks, but almost certainly also uses the KEYPLUG malware family. In September 2024, an...