Weaver Ant
A China-nexus espionage group that hid inside an Asian telecom company for more than four years. It relays traffic through hijacked home routers and plants many small back doors on web servers.
- Alert level
- 1/ 5
- Reports & advisories (90 days)
- 0
- Known exploited CVEs
- 0
- Personal data leaked (disclosed)
- None confirmed
Attribution
- Assessed as a China-nexus threat actor — Sygnia
Exploited vulnerabilities and targeted products
If you run any of these products, first make sure they are updated to a fixed version.
How they attack
Entry
Entering via a misconfigured public app
Like slipping in through a side door someone forgot to lock.
Inside
Planting small back doors on web servers
Like leaving a tiny copied key in the shop's back-door lock that only the intruder knows about.
Inside
Chaining back doors together
Like passing a message through a series of reception windows until it reaches the back office.
Inside
Hiding behind hijacked home routers
Like routing mail through strangers' mailboxes so nobody can tell where it really came from.
Sources
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The alert level is calculated automatically from reports and advisories in the last 90 days, known exploited vulnerabilities, and whether the group has targeted Japan.
Updated 2026-10-23 · daily