In a groundbreaking move, the elusive APT41 has decided to expand its horizons and take its talents on a tour of the African IT landscape. This fascinating group of digital mischief-makers has chosen to provide the continent’s IT services with a taste of top-tier, unsolicited espionage. Because who doesn’t love a little surprise visit from hackers who just want to ‘get to know you better’?

According to reliable sources at Kaspersky headquarters, APT41 has employed the latest marketing strategies by embedding hardcoded names of internal services, IP addresses, and proxy servers in their malware. Experts believe this is an incredible display of efficiency, innovation, and a healthy dose of chutzpah. After all, you can’t say they didn’t leave a return address!

In an attempt to make their presence felt, one of their command-and-control servers even decided to go full ‘hostage-taker’ on the local internet, ensuring that their African hosts get the full experience of state-sponsored overreach. It’s a tour de force of digital diplomacy that will surely go down in the annals of cyber history as a perfectly executed ‘how not to win friends and influence people.’