Who is Responsible and Does it Matter?

Talos Threat Source reports that the Lotus Blossom espionage group is conducting campaigns against government, manufacturing, telecoms, and media targets in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Philippines using the Sagerunex backdoor, and provides IOCs and malware hashes for detection; the newsletter also highlights other notable threats this week including a massive password dump, an 86k-device IoT botnet performing DDoS attacks, and top malicious files observed in Talos telemetry.