OctLurk and SilkLurk: newly identified tailored backdoors in cyber-espionage campaign in Central Asia

A Chinese-speaking threat actor has deployed highly tailored, memory-resident OctLurk and SilkLurk backdoors with advanced obfuscation and plugin capabilities in a widespread cyber-espionage campaign targeting government and critical infrastructure across Central Asia, enabling stealthy data theft, credential harvesting, and persistent remote access.