Operation CuckooBees

Channel Futures: Can you talk more about Operation CuckooBees? Who’s been targeted and what sort of damage has been inflicted?

Cybereason’s Israel Barak: The research highlights essentially a global espionage campaign that dates back to at least 2019. Based on the evidence that we uncovered … a Chinese state-sponsored actor that is dubbed Winnti or APT 41 targeted manufacturers in North America, Europe and Asia, specifically in the defense and aerospace, energy, biotech and pharma sectors. And the goal of that operation was basically stealing sensitive documents, blueprints, formulas and manufacturing-related proprietary data. As we were investigating that incident, we actually saw in some of those enterprises that adversary was targeting.