Google: Brickstorm malware used to steal U.S. orgs' data for over a year
Suspected Chinese hackers have used the Brickstorm malware in long-term persistence espionage operations against U.S. organizations in the technology and legal sectors. Brickstorm is a Go-based backdoor documented by Google in April 2024 following China-related intrusions that spawned from various edge devices and remained undetected in the victim environment for more than a year, on average. The malware served as a web server, file manipulation tool, dropper, SOCKS relay, and shell command ex