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Taiwanese film studio snaps up Chinese surveillance camera specialist Dahua
2024-04-18 03:30

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US senator wants to put the brakes on Chinese EVs
2024-04-15 13:00

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Chinese-Linked LightSpy iOS Spyware Targets South Asian iPhone Users
2024-04-15 09:04

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a "renewed" cyber espionage campaign targeting users in South Asia with the aim of delivering an Apple iOS spyware implant called LightSpy. "The latest...

A “cascade” of errors let Chinese hackers into US government inboxes
2024-04-03 13:37

Microsoft still doesn't known how Storm-0558 attackers managed to steal the Microsoft Services Account cryptographic key they used to forge authentication tokens needed to access email accounts belonging to US government officials. "The stolen 2016 MSA key in combination with [a] flaw in the token validation system permitted the threat actor to gain full access to essentially any Exchange Online account," CISA's Cyber Safety Review Board noted in a recently released Review of the Summer 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online Intrusion.

Finland Blames Chinese Hacking Group APT31 for Parliament Cyber Attack
2024-03-28 16:50

The Police of Finland (aka Poliisi) has formally accused a Chinese nation-state actor tracked as APT31 for orchestrating a cyber attack targeting the country's Parliament in 2020. The intrusion,...

Two Chinese APT Groups Ramp Up Cyber Espionage Against ASEAN Countries
2024-03-27 04:20

Two China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) groups have been observed targeting entities and member countries affiliated with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as part of a...

U.S. Charges 7 Chinese Nationals in Major 14-Year Cyber Espionage Operation
2024-03-26 12:06

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Monday unsealed indictments against seven Chinese nationals for their involvement in a hacking group that targeted U.S. and foreign critics, journalists,...

US charges Chinese nationals with cyber-spying on pretty much everyone for Beijing
2024-03-25 22:15

Plus: Alleged front sanctioned, UK blames PRC for Electoral Commission theft, and does America need a Cyber Force? The United States on Monday accused seven Chinese men of breaking into computer...

Chinese snoops use F5, ConnectWise bugs to sell access into top US, UK networks
2024-03-22 22:02

Crew may well be working under contract for Beijing Chinese spies exploited a couple of critical-severity bugs in F5 and ConnectWise equipment earlier this year to sell access to compromised US...

Exposed: Chinese smartphone farms that run thousands of barebones mobes to do crime
2024-03-21 06:32

Chinese upstarts are selling smartphone motherboards - and kit to run and manage them at scale - to operators of outfits that use them to commit various scams and crimes, according to an undercover investigation by state television broadcaster China Central Television revealed late last week. The report shows what appear to be chassis filled with 20 smartphone motherboards each, wired to a monitor that displays the screens of all 20 units.