Chimera

G0114

▲ High Threat

High-Tech Supply Chain Espionage

Origin China

Sponsor China (State-sponsored)

Motivation Intellectual property theft and strategic economic espionage

Target Sectors

Semiconductor industry Telecommunications Biotechnology High-tech manufacturing Aerospace Information Technology Software Supply Chains

Spear-phishing with malicious attachments/links

Exploitation of public-facing applications

Living-off-the-land (LotL) techniques

Credential harvesting and theft

Exfiltration via legitimate cloud services

Deployment of custom backdoors and loaders

CISA Advisories ↗

Hacking the mainframe…