Cybersecurity incident — 2020-04-30 00:00:00
Affected organization: Vietnamese government data center
Affected country: Viet Nam
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: APT23
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: China

The Chinese-linked threat actor Pirate Panda sent phishing emails to Vietnamese government officials located in Da Nang, Vietnam. It is believed that the group attempted to access the accounts of employees in a government data center as part of an espionage campaign to gain information on issues surrounding the territorial conflict in the South China Sea.