Security News

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...

Akamai to quit its CDN in China, seemingly not due to trouble from Beijing
2025-01-08 06:31

Security and cloud compute have so much more upside than the boring business of shifting bits Akamai has decided to end its content delivery network services in China, but not because it’s finding...

Charter, Consolidated, Windstream reportedly join China's Salt Typhoon victim list
2025-01-06 20:30

Slow drip of compromised telecom networks continues The list of telecommunications victims in the Salt Typhoon cyberattack continues to grow as a new report names Charter Communications,...

After China's Salt Typhoon, the reconstruction starts now
2025-01-06 09:31

If 40 years of faulty building gets blown down, don’t rebuild with the rubble Opinion When a typhoon devastates a land, it takes a while to understand the scale of the destruction. Disaster relief...

Taiwan reportedly claims China-linked ship damaged one of its submarine cables
2025-01-06 03:26

More evidence of Beijing’s liking for grey zone warfare, or a murky claim with odd African entanglements? Taiwanese authorities have asserted that a China-linked ship entered its waters and...

China-Linked Cyber Threat Group Hacks US Treasury Department
2025-01-02 19:45

Threat actors entered Treasury Department systems through BeyondTrust. The breach may be related to the Salt Typhoon attacks reported throughout the year.

China's cyber intrusions took a sinister turn in 2024
2024-12-31 12:15

From targeted espionage to pre-positioning - not that they are mutually exclusive The Chinese government's intrusions into America's telecommunications and other critical infrastructure networks...

More telcos confirm China Salt Typhoon security breaches as White House weighs in
2024-12-30 23:30

Intrusions allowed Beijing to 'geolocate millions of individuals, record phone calls at will' AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies confirmed that Chinese government-backed snoops accessed...