Security News

China warns of fake digital currency wallets fleecing netizens
2024-02-27 04:02

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has warned local netizens that fake wallet apps for the nation's central bank digital currency are already circulating and being abused by scammers. Using the digital currency requires an app - here's the iOS version - and a link to a bank account.

China could be doing better at censorship, think tank finds
2024-02-21 04:31

China's censorship regime remains pervasive and far reaching, but the bureaucratic apparatus implementing it is unevenly developed and is not always well funded, according to a report released on Tuesday. The document analyzes censorship practices in the Middle Kingdom and concludes that "Despite the importance the CCP places on domestic information control, its censorship apparatus is unevenly developed and plagued by unfunded mandates."

OpenAI shuts down China, Russia, Iran, N Korea accounts caught doing naughty things
2024-02-15 00:10

OpenAI has shut down five accounts it asserts were used by government agents to generate phishing emails and malicious software scripts as well as research ways to evade malware detection. "We disrupted five state-affiliated malicious actors: two China-affiliated threat actors known as Charcoal Typhoon and Salmon Typhoon; the Iran-affiliated threat actor known as Crimson Sandstorm; the North Korea-affiliated actor known as Emerald Sleet; and the Russia-affiliated actor known as Forest Blizzard," the OpenAI team wrote.

China's Volt Typhoon spies broke into emergency network of 'large' US city
2024-02-14 21:00

The Chinese government's Volt Typhoon spy team has apparently already compromised a large US city's emergency services network and has been spotted snooping around America's telecommunications' providers as well. On the other hand, you may expect China by now to be all over US infrastructure just as much as Uncle Sam's NSA and CIA is probably all over Chinese networks.

FBI: Give us warrantless Section 702 snooping powers – or China wins
2024-02-09 00:26

Analysis The FBI's latest PR salvo, as it fights to preserve its warrantless snooping powers on Americans via FISA Section 702, is more big talk of cyberattacks by the Chinese government. During a US House subcommittee meeting last week on cyber threats from Beijing, FBI boss Christopher Wray told lawmakers that "702 is the greatest tool the FBI has to combat PRC hacking groups." PRC being People's Republic of China.

US says China's Volt Typhoon is readying destructive cyberattacks
2024-02-07 19:11

The US government today confirmed that China's Volt Typhoon crew comprised "Multiple" critical infrastructure org's IT networks, and warned that the state-sponored hackers are readying "Disruptive or destructive cyberattacks" against these targets. "Volt Typhoon's choice of targets and pattern of behavior is not consistent with traditional cyber espionage or intelligence gathering operations, and the US authoring agencies assess with high confidence that Volt Typhoon actors are pre-positioning themselves on IT networks to enable lateral movement to OT assets to disrupt functions," the 12 government agencies warned.

U.S. Feds Shut Down China-Linked "KV-Botnet" Targeting SOHO Routers
2024-02-01 11:37

The U.S. government on Wednesday said it took steps to neutralize a botnet comprising hundreds of U.S.-based small office and home office (SOHO) routers hijacked by a China-linked state-sponsored...

US shorts China's Volt Typhoon crew targeting America's criticals
2024-01-30 18:15

The US Justice Department and FBI may have scored a win over Chinese state-sponsored snoops trying to break into American critical infrastructure. Law enforcement obtained a court order granting them permission to "Remotely disable aspects of the Chinese hacking campaign."

China-Linked Hackers Target Myanmar's Top Ministries with Backdoor Blitz
2024-01-30 13:45

The China-based threat actor known as Mustang Panda is suspected to have targeted Myanmar's Ministry of Defence and Foreign Affairs as part of twin campaigns designed to deploy backdoors and...

China-backed Hackers Hijack Software Updates to Implant "NSPX30" Spyware
2024-01-25 10:08

A previously undocumented China-aligned threat actor has been linked to a set of adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks that hijack update requests from legitimate software to deliver a...