PULSE NAME
An Investigation Into Years of Undetected Operations Targeting High-Value Sectors
WHITE CL-UNK-1068 AlienVault 2026-03-06 Modified: 2026-04-05
44
IOCs
MEDIUM VOLUME
Since 2020, a Chinese threat actor dubbed CL-UNK-1068 has been targeting high-value organizations across South, Southeast and East Asia, focusing on critical sectors like aviation, energy, government, and telecommunications. The group employs a diverse toolkit including custom malware, modified open-source utilities, and living-off-the-land binaries to maintain stealthy persistence. Their techniques involve web shell deployment, DLL side-loading attacks, and credential theft. The attackers exfiltrate sensitive data, including configuration files and database backups. While primarily assessed as an espionage operation, cybercriminal motivations cannot be fully ruled out. The activity demonstrates sophisticated cross-platform capabilities, targeting both Windows and Linux environments.
MITRE ATT&CK & Malware Families
ATT&CK TECHNIQUES
MALWARE FAMILIES
GodZilla AntSword Xnote Fast Reverse Proxy ScanPortPlus SuperDump Sliver
Indicators of Compromise (3 / 44 total)
All CVE FileHash-MD5 FileHash-SHA1 FileHash-SHA256
TYPEINDICATORDESCRIPTIONCREATED
CVE CVE-2021-4034 2026-03-06
CVE CVE-2023-34048 2026-03-06
CVE CVE-2026-0628 2026-03-06