Over the past few years, we’ve been observing and monitoring the espionage activities of HoneyMyte (aka Mustang Panda or Bronze President) within Asia and Europe, with the Southeast Asia region being the most affected. The primary targets of most of the group’s campaigns were government entities.
As an APT group, HoneyMyte uses a variety of sophisticated tools to achieve its goals. These tools include ToneShell, PlugX, Qreverse and CoolClient backdoors, Tonedisk and SnakeDisk USB worms, among others. In 2025, we observed HoneyMyte updating its toolset by enhancing the CoolClient backdoor with new features, deploying several variants of a browser login data stealer, and using multiple scripts designed for data theft and reconnaissance.
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Source: Kaspersky
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