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A new phishing campaign, "Operation Dragon Weave," is targeting organizations in Taiwan and the Czech Republic. Attributed to a China-aligned group, the attacks use emails with ZIP attachments to install malware, targeting government, technology, academic, and financial sectors for cyber espionage.

New analysis from Symantec and Carbon Black reveals that the Fast16 malware, a precursor to Stuxnet, was a cyber sabotage tool. The Lua-based malware was specifically engineered to corrupt uranium-compression simulations, which are a critical part of nuclear weapons design and testing, altering their results.