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Xi know what you did last summer: China was all up in Republicans' email, says book
2025-02-25 21:39

Of course, Microsoft is in the mix, isn't it Chinese spies reportedly broke into the US Republication National Committee's Microsoft-powered email and snooped around for months before being caught.…

China-based Silver Fox spoofs healthcare app to deliver malware
2025-02-25 16:17

Silver Fox, a China-based threat actor that may or may not be backed by the Chinese government, has been delivering the ValleyRAT backdoor to unsuspecting users by disguising the malware as...

China's Silver Fox spoofs medical imaging apps to hijack patients' computers
2025-02-25 13:15

Sly like a PRC cyberattack A Chinese government-backed group is spoofing legitimate medical software to hijack hospital patients' computers, infecting them with backdoors, credential-swiping...

Data Leak Exposes TopSec's Role in China’s Censorship-as-a-Service Operations
2025-02-21 16:06

An analysis of a data leak from a Chinese cybersecurity company TopSec has revealed that it likely offers censorship-as-a-service solutions to prospective customers, including a state-owned...

China-Linked Attackers Exploit Check Point Flaw to Deploy ShadowPad and Ransomware
2025-02-20 11:21

A previously unknown threat activity cluster targeted European organizations, particularly those in the healthcare sector, to deploy PlugX and its successor, ShadowPad, with the intrusions...

More victims of China's Salt Typhoon crew emerge: Telcos just now hit via Cisco bugs
2025-02-13 18:34

Networks in US and beyond compromised by Beijing's super-snoops pulling off priv-esc attacks China's Salt Typhoon spy crew exploited vulnerabilities in Cisco devices to compromise at least seven...

Huawei revenue growing fast, suggesting China's scoffing at sanctions
2025-02-09 23:59

PLUS: Japan shifts to pre-emptive cyber-defense; Thailand cuts cords connecting scam camps; China to launch 'moon hopper' in 2026; and more! Asia In Brief Huawei chair Liang Hua last week told a...

Patient monitors with backdoor are sending info to China, CISA warns
2025-01-31 12:02

Contec CMS8000, a patient monitor manufactured by a Chinese company, and Epsimed MN-120, which is the same monitor but relabeled, exfiltrate patients’ data to a hard-coded IP address and have a...

Backdoor found in two healthcare patient monitors, linked to IP in China
2025-01-30 23:31

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that Contec CMS8000 devices, a widely used healthcare patient monitoring device, include a backdoor that quietly sends...

China and friends claim success in push to stamp out tech support cyber-scam slave camps
2025-01-24 05:59

Paint a target on Myanmar, pledge more info-sharing to get the job done A group established by six Asian nations to fight criminal cyber-scam slave camps that infest the region claims it’s made...