Azerbaijani Energy Firm Hit by Repeated Microsoft Exchange Exploitation

A threat actor with affiliations to China has been linked to a multiwave intrusion targeting an unnamed Azerbaijani oil and gas company between late December 2025 and late February 2026 marking an expansion of its targeting The activity has been attributed by Bitdefender with moderatetohigh confidence to a hacking group known as FamousSparrow aka UAT9244 which shares some level of