Security News

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...

China-aligned PlushDaemon APT compromises supply chain of Korean VPN
2025-01-22 06:00

ESET researchers have uncovered a supply chain attack targeting a South Korean VPN provider, carried out by PlushDaemon, a newly identified China-aligned APT group. In this cyberespionage...

Hackers game out infowar against China with the US Navy
2025-01-20 18:54

Taipei invites infosec bods to come and play on its home turf Picture this: It's 2030 and China's furious with Taiwan after the island applies to the UN to be recognized as an independent state....

European Privacy Group Sues TikTok and AliExpress for Illicit Data Transfers to China
2025-01-17 04:14

Austrian privacy non-profit None of Your Business (noyb) has filed complaints accusing companies like TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat, and Xiaomi of violating data protection regulations...

GDPR complaints filed against TikTok, Temu for sending user data to China
2025-01-16 22:34

Non-profit privacy advocacy group "None of Your Business" (noyb) has filed six complaints against TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat, and Xiaomi, for unlawfully transferring European user's...

China's Salt Typhoon spies spotted on US govt networks before telcos, CISA boss says
2025-01-15 20:30

We are only seeing 'the tip of the iceberg,' Easterly warns Beijing's Salt Typhoon cyberspies had been seen in US government networks before telcos discovered the same foreign intruders in their...

Japanese Police claim China ran five-year cyberattack campaign targeting local orgs
2025-01-09 03:56

‘MirrorFace’ group found ways to run malware in the Windows sandbox, which is worrying Japan’s National Police Agency and Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity have confirmed...