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Beijing on Tuesday hit out at new US sanctions against telecom giant Huawei, accusing Washington of an "Abuse of national power" to block the rise of Chinese companies. A US Commerce Department statement Monday barred an additional 38 Huawei affiliates from buying American computer chips and other technology.

The GoldenSpy malware was initially detailed in late June, and was likely deployed since April 2020, via an official tax application that foreign companies doing business in China are required to install. In late June, soon after the initial report on GoldenSpy was published, the actors behind it leveraged the update mechanism within the tax software to deliver an uninstaller to the infected machines and completely remove the malware and additional artifacts, including the uninstaller.

The US administration Monday expanded its sanctions on China's Huawei, a move aimed at further limiting the tech giant's access to computer chips and other technology. A Commerce Department statement added 38 Huawei affiliates around the world to the "Entity list," claiming that the company was using international subsidiaries to circumvent the sanctions which prevent export of US-based technology.

A Chinese threat actor tracked by Kaspersky as CactusPete was observed leveraging an updated backdoor in recent attacks targeting military and financial organizations in Eastern Europe. The adversary lacks sophistication, but has been relatively successful in attacks despite that, the security researchers say.

China is now blocking encrypted HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 with ESNI enabled, according to observers at the Great Firewall Report. While TLS hides the content of a user's communication, it cannot always hide the server they are communicating with because its handshake optionally contains a Server Name Indication field designed to explain where traffic is going.

China is now blocking encrypted HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 with ESNI enabled, according to observers at the Great Firewall Report. While TLS hides the content of a user's communication, it cannot always hide the server they are communicating with because its handshake optionally contains a Server Name Indication field designed to explain where traffic is going.

A ban by President Donald Trump's administration on Chinese mobile apps such as TikTok and WeChat risks fragmenting an already fragile global internet and creating an American version of China's "Great Firewall." Fears about the global internet ecosystem intensified this week with Trump's executive orders banning the popular video app TikTok and Chinese social network WeChat, following a US government directive to prohibit the use of other "Untrusted" applications and services from China.

China has accused the US of abusing its national security laws to target Chinese companies after Washington threatened to ban video-sharing app TikTok from its shores last week. On Saturday, the Trump administration vowed to "Close down" the Chinese-owned video-sharing app unless it is bought by a "Very American" company within 45 days.

A Chinese state-backed hacking crew named Taidoor is deploying a custom remote access trojan against Western organisations, according to US authorities. Taidoor is said by the Americans to be sponsored by the Chinese government, with their aim being "To maintain a presence on victim networks and to further network exploitation".

The Council of the European Union has imposed its first-ever sanctions against persons or entities involved in various cyber-attacks targeting European citizens, and its member states. Out of the six individuals sanctioned by the EU include two Chinese citizens and four Russian nationals.