Hackers linked to China have been targeting human rights groups for years

The International Federation for Human Rights is one of the organizations that RedAlpha has taken aim at. Analysts expect that the digital espionage has seen success, despite the fact that the impact of the hackers is not known.

Jon Condra, director of the organization's strategic threats team, believes that RedAlpha is sponsored by the Chinese government.

The Democratic Progressive Party and the American Institute in Taiwan are two organizations that the hacking group has been interested in over the past few years. Taiwan is part of Chinese territory.

RedAlpha was publicly identified in a report by Citizen Lab. The Chinese Communist Party calls Tibetans, Uyghurs, Taiwanese, and democracy activists the "five poisons". Domestic dissidents who criticize and challenge the Communist Party's hold on China are included. International visibility and support is shared by them as well.

RedAlpha launched a campaign against the Tibetan community, government agencies, and a media group. In the years since, Recorded Future has identified more cyber campaigns against Tibetans, and last year a report stated that the group is expanding its focus to include individuals, vulnerable ethnic groups, civil society organizations, and a rising number of government agencies.

RedAlpha is still using the same simple and inexpensive tactics that it used a long time ago. This latest slate of espionage was linked to previous campaigns because the group reuses many of the same domains, addresses, tactics, and even domain registration information that has been publicly identified by cybersecurity experts for years.