Security News > 2025 > March > China-Linked Silk Typhoon Expands Cyber Attacks to IT Supply Chains for Initial Access
2025-03-05 15:44
The China-lined threat actor behind the zero-day exploitation of security flaws in Microsoft Exchange servers in January 2021 has shifted its tactics to target the information technology (IT) supply chain as a means to obtain initial access to corporate networks. That's according to new findings from the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team, which said the Silk Typhoon (formerly Hafnium) hacking
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