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Chinese cyberspies, Musk’s Beijing ties, labelled ‘real risk’ to US security by senator
2024-11-20 23:50

Meet Liminal Panda, which prowls telecom networks in South Asia and Africa A senior US senator has warned that American tech companies’ activities in China represent a national security risk, in a...

Beijing claims it's found 'underwater lighthouses' that its foes use for espionage
2024-10-30 08:31

Release the Kraken! China has accused unnamed foreign entities of using devices hidden in the seabed and bobbing on the waves to learn its maritime secrets.…

Chinese broadband satellites may be Beijing's flying spying censors, think tank warns
2024-08-28 01:58

Ground stations are the perfect place for the Great Firewall to block things China finds unpleasant The multiple constellations of broadband-beaming satellites planned by Chinese companies could...

Beijing's attack gang Volt Typhoon was a false flag inside job conspiracy: China
2024-07-19 05:09

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.

Stifling Beijing in cyberspace is now British intelligence’s number-one mission
2024-05-16 14:45

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.".

Think tank: China's tech giants refine and define Beijing's propaganda push
2024-05-02 06:57

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US charges Chinese nationals with cyber-spying on pretty much everyone for Beijing
2024-03-25 22:15

Plus: Alleged front sanctioned, UK blames PRC for Electoral Commission theft, and does America need a Cyber Force? The United States on Monday accused seven Chinese men of breaking into computer...

Beijing-backed cyberspies attacked 70+ orgs across 23 countries
2024-03-19 21:00

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.

Giant leak reveals Chinese infosec vendor I-Soon is one of Beijing's cyber-attackers for hire
2024-02-22 06:31

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."

US agencies warn made-in-China drones might help Beijing snoop on the world
2024-01-19 02:45

Two US government agencies, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation, warned on Wednesday that drones made in China could be used to gather information on critical infrastructure. How Wi-Fi spy drones snooped on financial firm FCC suggests licensing 5GHz spectrum to drone operators Wing, Alphabet's drone delivery unit, designs bigger bird to deliver pasta, faster US lawmakers have Chinese LiDAR on their threat-detection radar.