China-linked hackers targeted Mongolian government using Slack, Discord for covert communications
The group, which researchers at cybersecurity firm ESET named GopherWhisper, has been active since at least November 2023 and was discovered in January 2025 after investigators found a previously unknown backdoor on the network of a Mongolian government institution.
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