Cyber Threat Report: 'Chinese Espionage Group UNC3886 Found Exploiting CVE-2023-34048 Since Late 2021'

Report Author Mandiant
Publication Date 2024-01-19
Original Reporting Source
Attributed to Nation China
Related Intrusion Sets UNC3886
Identified CVEs CVE-2023-34048

This short post from Mandiant researchers details how UNC3886 were observed exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in VMWare tools for approximately 2 years before the vulnerability (CVE-2023-34048) was publicly reported and patched. Mandiant observed vCenter crashes which likely indicated exploitation of the CVE across multiple UNC3886 intrusions between late 2021 and early 2022.

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