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Velvet Ant Hackers Backdoor OpenSSH and PAM to Spy on Critical Infrastructure Network


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2026-06-15 11:48:17
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A long-running, highly disciplined intrusion attributed to the China-nexus actor known as Velvet Ant has been revealed as a near-decade campaign of silent access that culminated in the replacement of core authentication components OpenSSH binaries and PAM modules across a segregated critical-infrastructure network. The intrusion chain began with compromises of internet-facing systems where the operator […]


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