Security News

This is the FBI, open up. China's Volt Typhoon is on your network
2025-03-12 13:00

Power utility GM talks to El Reg about getting that call and what happened next Nick Lawler, general manager of the Littleton Electric Light and Water Departments (LELWD), was at home one Friday...

China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea Intelligence Sharing
2025-03-12 11:09

Former CISA Director Jen Easterly writes about a new international intelligence sharing co-op: Historically, China, Russia, Iran & North Korea have cooperated to some extent on military and...

Feds name and charge alleged Silk Typhoon spies behind years of China-on-US attacks
2025-03-06 00:47

Xi's freelance infosec warriors apparently paid up to $75K to crack a single American inbox US government agencies announced Wednesday criminal charges against alleged members of China's Silk...

China's Silk Typhoon, tied to US Treasury break-in, now hammers IT and govt targets
2025-03-05 17:22

They're good at zero-day exploits, too Silk Typhoon, the Chinese government crew believed to be behind the December US Treasury intrusions, has been abusing stolen API keys and cloud credentials...

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)...

Wallbleed vulnerability unearths secrets of China's Great Firewall 125 bytes at a time
2025-02-27 00:52

Boffins poked around inside censorship engines for years before Beijing patched hole Smart folks investigating a memory-dumping vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China (GFW) finally released...

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...