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Chinese hackers infect Dutch military network with malware

ID: 90e7bc30-554b-562e-9d4c-33906e483598

STIX ID: report--90e7bc30-554b-562e-9d4c-33906e483598

Feed Name: Bleeping Computer

Threat Score
85/100

Date Published: 2024-02-06

Date Updated: 2026-04-20

Author: Sergiu Gatlan

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MIVD and AIVD report that a Chinese state-sponsored actor breached a segmented Dutch Ministry of Defence R&D network, deploying a previously unknown FortiGate-targeting RAT called Coathanger that persists across reboots and firmware upgrades; the intrusion leveraged the CVE-2022-42475 FortiOS SSL‑VPN vulnerability and is linked to broader Chinese political espionage against the Netherlands and allies.

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