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China has asserted that the Volt Typhoon gang, which Five Eyes nations accuse of being a Beijing-backed attacker that targets critical infrastructure, was in fact made up by the US intelligence community. The nation's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center, National Engineering Laboratory for Computer Virus Prevention Technology, and infosec vendor 360 Digital Security Group last week published a report [PDF] on Vault Typhoon titled ": A secret Disinformation Campaign targeting US Congress and Taxpayers conducted by US Government agencies.
That's not to say Russia is in the background - far from it - but more of a focus is being placed on China and the "Epoch-defining challenge" it presents. It's a major U-turn on the agency's attitudes toward cybersecurity from as recently as 2021, when former NCSC CEO Lindy Cameron said ransomware was the foremost threat to the UK. The people of China have contributed so much to the UK, AKB acknowledged, alongside its signing of the declaration on AI at Bletchley Park in November, but make no mistake: "China poses a genuine and increasing cyber risk to the UK.".
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Chinese cyberspies have compromised at least 70 organizations, mostly government entities, and targeted more than 116 victims across the globe, according to security researchers. "One of the threat actor's favorite tactics involves using its malicious access to government infrastructure to attack other government entities, abusing the infrastructure to host malicious payloads, proxy attack traffic, and send spear-phishing emails to government-related targets using compromised government email accounts," Joseph Chen and Daniel Lunghi said in research published on Monday.
A cache of stolen document posted to GitHub appears to reveal how a Chinese infosec vendor named I-Soon offers rent-a-hacker services for Beijing. Analysis of the docs by infosec vendor SentinelOne characterizes I-Soon as "a company who competes for low-value hacking contracts from many government agencies."