While identifying hackers or the governments that might back them can be difficult, FireEye said OceanLotus had used tactics similar to those<br />in attacks previously identified by experts as having targeted Vietnamese dissidents, journalists and governments at odds with the country.<br />Small Countries’ New Weapon Against Goliaths: Hacking -<br />By MIKE IVES and PAUL MOZURMAY 14, 2017<br />HONG KONG — Hackers in Vietnam have been attacking foreign companies and other targets for years, seeking information and using tactics<br />that suggest links to the Vietnamese government, a cybersecurity company said Monday.<br />FireEye, a company based in California that deals with large network breaches, said it had watched a Vietnamese group known<br />as OceanLotus target foreign companies in the manufacturing, hospitality and consumer products sectors since at least 2014.
