Summary
- Cyber actors backed by Russia, China, and other foreign adversaries are increasingly targeting non-profit and advocacy groups, journalists, human rights activists, and other members of civil society.
- Civil society groups at high risk include non-profit, advocacy, cultural, faith-based, academic, think tanks, journalists, dissidents, and diaspora organizations.
- State-sponsored cyber actors from Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are predominantly responsible for the threat.
- The advisory warns that threat actors are using personalized and subversive tactics, gaining access to devices through social engineering and malicious software.
