UNC5221 and the BRICKSTORM Campaign
Oct 22, 2025•26 min
Episode description
Sarah Yoder (Manager, Mandiant Consulting) and Ashley Pearson (Senior Analyst, Advanced Practices on Google Threat Intelligence Group) join host Luke McNamara to discuss UNC5221 and their operations involving BRICKSTORM backdoor. This highly sophisticated, suspected China-nexus cyber-espionage threat group is known for aggressively targeting internet-facing network appliances (like VPNs and firewalls) to establish long-term, stealthy access for espionage.
Read our blog post for more: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/brickstorm-espionage-campaign
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