OceanLotus
OceanLotus, also known as APT32, is a hacker group associated with the government of Vietnam. It has been accused of Cyberespionage of political dissidents, businesses and foreign officials that have ties to Vietnam. History. In 2020, Bloomberg reported that OceanLotus had targeted China's Ministry of Emergency Management and the Wuhan municipal government in order to obtain information about the COVID-19 pandemic. The Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the accusations unfounded. In 2020, Kaspersky researchers disclosed that OceanLotus had been using the Google Play Store to distribute malware. In November 2020 Volexity researchers disclosed that OceanLotus had set  up fake news websites and Facebook pages to both engage in web profiling and distribute malware. According to reports, Facebook traced the group's activities to an IT company called in Ho Chi Minh City. In February 2021, Amnesty International reported that OceanLotus was behind a sustained campaign of spyware attacks on the Vietnamese human rights activists, including Bui Thanh Hieu. In March 2021, it was reported that the group's operations were impacted by a fire at an OVH data center in France.