Security News

Chinese cyberspies, Musk’s Beijing ties, labelled ‘real risk’ to US security by senator
2024-11-20 23:50

Meet Liminal Panda, which prowls telecom networks in South Asia and Africa A senior US senator has warned that American tech companies’ activities in China represent a national security risk, in a...

Chinese Hackers Exploit T-Mobile and Other U.S. Telecoms in Broader Espionage Campaign
2024-11-19 07:02

U.S. telecoms giant T-Mobile has confirmed that it was also among the companies that were targeted by Chinese threat actors to gain access to valuable information. The adversaries, tracked as Salt...

Chinese hackers exploit Fortinet VPN zero-day to steal credentials
2024-11-18 21:20

Chinese threat actors use a custom post-exploitation toolkit named 'DeepData' to exploit a zero-day vulnerability in Fortinet's FortiClient Windows VPN client that steal credentials. [...]

FBI Seeks Public Help to Identify Chinese Hackers Behind Global Cyber Intrusions
2024-11-05 17:15

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has sought assistance from the public in connection with an investigation involving the breach of edge devices and computer networks belonging to...

Sophos Versus the Chinese Hackers
2024-11-04 12:02

Really interesting story of Sophos’s five-year war against Chinese hackers.

Microsoft Warns of Chinese Botnet Exploiting Router Flaws for Credential Theft
2024-11-01 09:48

Microsoft has revealed that a Chinese threat actor it tracks as Storm-0940 is leveraging a botnet called Quad7 to orchestrate highly evasive password spray attacks. The tech giant has given the...

Sophos reveals 5-year battle with Chinese hackers attacking network devices
2024-10-31 22:16

Sophos disclosed today a series of reports dubbed "Pacific Rim" that detail how the cybersecurity company has been sparring with Chinese threat actors for over 5 years as they increasingly...

Microsoft: Chinese hackers use Quad7 botnet to steal credentials
2024-10-31 20:03

Microsoft warns that Chinese threat actors use the Quad7 botnet, compromised of hacked SOHO routers, to steal credentials in password-spray attacks. [...]

Sophos mounted counter-offensive operation to foil Chinese attackers
2024-10-31 13:57

Sophos conducted defensive and counter-offensive operation over the last five years with multiple interlinked nation-state adversaries based in China targeting perimeter devices, including Sophos...

Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years
2024-10-31 05:34

India makes it onto list of likely threats for the first time A report by Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE) revealed that state-backed actors have collected valuable information...