Security News

China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms
2025-03-23 23:29

PLUS: Zoho's Ulaa anointed India’s most patriotic browser; Typhoon-like gang targets Taiwan; Japan debates offensive cyber-ops; and more Asia In Brief China’s Cyberspace Administration and...

China-Linked APT Aquatic Panda: 10-Month Campaign, 7 Global Targets, 5 Malware Families
2025-03-21 11:01

The China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group. known as Aquatic Panda has been linked to a "global espionage campaign" that took place in 2022 targeting seven organizations. These...

China-Linked MirrorFace Deploys ANEL and AsyncRAT in New Cyber Espionage Operation
2025-03-18 10:24

Threat hunters have shed more light on a previously disclosed malware campaign undertaken by the China-aligned MirrorFace threat actor that targeted a diplomatic organization in the European Union...

FCC stands up Council on National Security to fight China in ways that CISA used to
2025-03-16 22:58

PLUS: Alleged Garantex admin arrested in India; Google deletes more North Korean malware Infosec In Brief United States Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr has unveiled plans to...

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...