BleepingComputer reports that Chinese state-sponsored threat operation APT41, also known as HOODOO, Winnti, and Barium, has targeted an Italian job-search website and a Taiwanese media firm in data exfiltration attacks involving the exploitation of the Google Command and Control red-teaming program. Attacks using GC2 against the Italian job search entity were launched by APT41 last July, with the agent leveraged to facilitate further payload delivery and data exfiltration to Google Drive, according to the Google Threat Horizons report.

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