Chinese cyber espionage campaign targets ‘dozens’ of Western governments, Dutch officials say

An ongoing Chinese-linked cyber espionage campaign exploited a FortiGate FortiOS vulnerability (CVE-2022-42475) to compromise roughly 20,000 edge devices worldwide and deploy a remote access trojan called "Coathanger," enabling persistent access to dozens of Western governments, international organizations, and many defense industry companies; approximately 14,000 devices were infected before the vulnerability was patched, infections are hard to detect and remove, and the actor likely retains access to a significant number of victims.