Non-governmental organizations have also been targeted. According to a report by Bleeping Computer, the targets involve a wide range of entities involved in legal, governmental, or religious activities.
This campaign, involving the popular VLC Media Player, appears to have been started for espionage purposes. Such stealth attacks are not uncommon, but this one seems to have taken place on a large scale. It can grant knowledge on everything about the system, scour through running processes, and download files on command, only broadening the potential for misuse. The malware deployed to the victims of the attack opens the door for hackers to obtain all kinds of information. Cicada has been around for a long time - at least since 2006. These activities have been traced down to a hacker group called Cicada, which is also known by a long list of other names, such as menuPass, Stone Panda, APT10, Potassium, and Red Apollo. The hacker group, allegedly affiliated with the Chinese government, uses the popular video player to deploy malware on the targeted computer.
Chinese hackers use VLC media player to launch cyberattacks Researchers discovered that Chinese hackers have been using VLC Media Player to launch cybersecurity attacks.
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