Recent backdoor implants and cyber-espionage attacks on their supply chains have African organizations looking to diversify beyond Chinese, American tech vendors.

APT Wirte is doing double duty, adding all manner of supplemental malware to gain access, eavesdrop, and wipe data, depending on the target.

The group seeks out aerospace professionals by impersonating job recruiters — a demographic it has targeted in the past as well — then deploys the SlugResin backdoor malware.