Anonymous attacks Sony again, this time over SOPA

Without the need for specialized audio equipment to conduct PIXHELL, threat actors could leverage social engineering and software supply chain attacks to distribute covert data exfiltration channel-triggering malware that would create an acoustic channel for the data.

Russian state-sponsored threat group Coldriver has been suspected by the Free Russia Foundation of being behind the intrusion, which involved the targeting of several entities to exfiltrate internal documents, grant reports, and other correspondences in retaliation against pro-democracy Russians

Simultaneous target infiltration and reconnaissance, network compromise, and data exfiltration activities have been performed by Clusters Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie, respectively.