Joseph Chen
Joseph Chen
Staff Researcher
Trend Micro

Joseph Chen is a staff researcher working at Trend Micro. He has many years of experience in cybercrime and APT threat research.

SPEECH
5/16 (Thu.) 10:15 - 10:45 4F 4B Threat Research Forum
Uncovering Earth Krahang's Operation Targeting Global Government Entities

Since early 2022, we have been monitoring an APT campaign targeting several government entities worldwide, with a strong focus in Southeast Asia, but we have also seen targets in Europe, America, or Africa. Our research allowed us to identify multiple connections with China-nexus threat actors Earth Lusca and Luoyu. Despite this campaign still has an independent infrastructure and employed unique backdoors. We managed to retrieve multiple files from the threat actor's servers, including samples, configuration files and log files from their attack tools. By combining this data with our telemetry, we have gained a better understanding of their operation and build a clear view of Earth Krahang’s victimology and interests. In this presentation, we are going to disclose the details of their latest operations.