A CYBERTHREAT intelligence company revealed that there's an expansion of an ongoing cyberespionage campaign that targets Southeast Asian governments. Israel-based CheckPoint Research (CPR) said on March 10 that these Asean governments include Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia, and even identified the origin of the cyberthreat actor.

In June 2021, CPR pointed to a group called SharpPanda as an 'advanced persistent threat' (APT). APT is a malicious actor who possesses extraordinary skill and resources — 'enabling them to infiltrate and exfiltrate an organization's network.'