{"id":19795,"date":"2026-04-03T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/china-linked-ta416-targets-european-governments-with-plugx-and-oauth-based-phishing-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:34:00","slug":"china-linked-ta416-targets-european-governments-with-plugx-and-oauth-based-phishing-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/china-linked-ta416-targets-european-governments-with-plugx-and-oauth-based-phishing-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/","title":{"rendered":"China-Linked TA416 Targets European Governments with PlugX and OAuth-Based Phishing info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A China-aligned threat actor has set its sights on European government and diplomatic organizations since mid-2025,\u00a0following a two-year\u00a0period of minimal targeting in the\u00a0region.<br \/>\nThe campaign has been attributed\u00a0to TA416, a cluster of activity that overlaps with DarkPeony, RedDelta, Red Lich, SmugX, UNC6384, and Vertigo\u00a0Panda.<br \/>\n&#8220;This TA416 activity included multiple<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/china-linked-ta416-targets-european.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A China-aligned threat actor has set its sights on European government and diplomatic organizations since mid-2025,\u00a0following a two-year\u00a0period of minimal targeting in the\u00a0region. The campaign has been attributed\u00a0to TA416, a cluster of activity that overlaps with DarkPeony, RedDelta, Red Lich, SmugX, UNC6384, and Vertigo\u00a0Panda. &#8220;This TA416 activity included multipleRead More\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}