Threat Intelligence Report

Chinese Threat Actors: What Defenders Need to Know

📅 April 27, 2026 📰 www.picussecurity.com 🔍 47 CVE(s) referenced

Chinese state-sponsored threat actors have evolved into a highly industrialized, contractor-driven ecosystem that leverages rapidly refreshed botnets of compromised edge devices, shared malware toolkits, and advanced covert tradecraft—rendering traditional defenses ineffective and forcing organizations to adopt behavior-based detection and rapid patching to counter increasingly stealthy, scalable, and persistent cyber operations.

CVE-2017-0199, CVE-2022-41040, CVE-2023-20273, CVE-2024-8963, CVE-2022-1040, CVE-2014-1776, CVE-2025-0282, CVE-2019-0604, CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2015-5119, CVE-2023-46805, CVE-2017-10271, CVE-2021-27860, CVE-2021-34473, CVE-2012-0158, CVE-2020-5902, CVE-2021-40539, CVE-2023-34048, CVE-2022-22948, CVE-2022-47966, CVE-2022-41082, CVE-2021-34523, CVE-2023-20867, CVE-2020-0688, CVE-2023-20198, CVE-2025-53770, CVE-2024-3400, CVE-2021-31207, CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2018-0798, CVE-2025-53771, CVE-2024-21887, CVE-2019-0708, CVE-2023-4966, CVE-2024-39929, CVE-2022-42475, CVE-2019-19781, CVE-2025-22457, CVE-2018-0802, CVE-2020-10189, CVE-2021-26858, CVE-2022-26134, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2017-11882, CVE-2015-3113, CVE-2021-27065, CVE-2022-41328

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