Chinese Hacking Group Codoso Team Uses Forbes.com As Watering Hole

Another day, another cyberespionage campaign attributed to a Chinese hacking group. Today’s newly identified hacking push is a watering hole attack against Forbes and other targets last November that’s been attributed by iSIGHT Partners and Invincea to likely be the handiwork of a long-running group they call Codoso Team, but which has also been named as Sunshop Group. The campaign was made possible by a zero-day attack that strung together a now-patched Adobe vulnerability with a bypass vulnerability in Microsoft’s ASLR technology for Internet Explorer that the company patched today.