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Key Findings Threat actors affiliated with China have been attributed to a fresh set of cyber espionage campaigns targeting government and law enforcement agencies across Southeast Asia throughout 2025. The activity cluster, tracked by Check Point Research under the moniker "Amaranth-Dragon," shares links to the APT 41 ecosystem. Targeted countries include Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines. The campaigns were timed to coincide with sensitive

Key Findings The Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0184 (also tracked as Hive0156) has been targeting Ukrainian military and government entities by leveraging the Viber messaging platform to deliver malicious ZIP archives. The attack campaign involves using Viber to distribute malicious ZIP files disguised as official Ukrainian parliamentary documents and military casualty data. The ZIP archives contain Windows shortcut (LNK) files posing as Microsoft Word and Excel do

Key Findings A Russia-aligned threat group, tracked as UNK_AcademicFlare, has been conducting phishing campaigns that abuse Microsoft 365 device code authentication workflows to steal victims' credentials and take over accounts. The attacks, ongoing since September 2025, target government, military, think tanks, higher education, and transportation sectors in the U.S. and Europe. The adversary uses compromised email addresses belonging to government and military organizations

Key Findings: Major data leak from Chinese security firm Knownsec (aka Chuangyu) in November 2025, with over 12,000 secret files briefly appearing on GitHub. Leak provided a rare insight into China's government-backed hacking tools and operations. The data theft may have occurred as early as 2023, but the files were taken down quickly. Background Knownsec is a prominent player in China's cybersecurity industry, having received a significant investment from Tencent in 2015 and

Key Findings: Microsoft set to receive $12.5 billion in tax breaks in 2026, enough to provide food assistance to 5.2 million people, Medicaid coverage for 1.6 million adults (or 3.8 million children), or reduce ACA premiums for 1.9 million Americans Amazon poised to receive $16 billion in tax reductions this year, which could fund SNAP benefits for 6.6 million people, Medicaid coverage for 2 million adults (or 5.4 million children), or reduce ACA premiums for 2.4 million Amer