b'Alan Neville from Symantec/Broadcom joins Dave Bittner on this episode to discuss Antlion, a Chinese state-backed hacker group, are using custom backdoors to target financial institutions in Taiwan. Symantec\'s blog shares the research behind the attacks and how the backdoor allowed the attackers to run WMI commands remotely.\\nSymantec\'s research showed that "The goal of this campaign appears to have been espionage, as we saw the attackers exfiltrating data and staging data for exfiltration from infected networks." They have since found that this attack has been going on over the course of the past 18 months, in which 250 days were spent on the financial organization and around 175 days were spent on the manufacturing organization.\\nThe research can be found here:\\nAntlion: Chinese APT Uses Custom Backdoor to Target Financial Institutions in Taiwan'