China-aligned hacking groups have intensified operations across continents. Fresh campaigns blend familiar spear-phishing tricks with sophisticated cloud command channels and deep system penetration. The activity signals Beijing’s push for persistent access to government data, strategic technologies, and critical networks amid rising geopolitical friction.

Seqrite Labs documented one such effort, codenamed Operation Dragon Weave. It struck officials and citizens in the Czech Republic and Taiwan. Targets spanned government, research, academic, technology, and financial services sectors. Attackers sent spear-phishing emails with ZIP attachments. Those files hid an infection chain meant to run quietly in the background.

“When extracted, the archive contains multiple files that appear legitimate but are actually part of a structured infection chain designed to execute malicious payloads in the background,” security researcher Priya Patel said . The chain offered two paths.…