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Chinese Actor SecShow Conducts Massive DNS Probing on Global Scale
2024-06-11 14:32

Cybersecurity researchers have shed more light on a Chinese actor codenamed SecShow that has been observed conducting Domain Name System (DNS) on a global scale since at least June 2023. The...

Chinese attackers leverage previously unseen malware for espionage
2024-06-06 02:45

Sophos released its report, "Operation Crimson Palace: Threat Hunting Unveils Multiple Clusters of Chinese State-Sponsored Activity Targeting Southeast Asia," which details a highly sophisticated, nearly two-year long espionage campaign against a high-level government target. During Sophos X-Ops' investigation, which began in 2023, the managed detection and response team found three distinct clusters of activity targeting the same organization, two of which included tactics, techniques and procedures that overlap with well-known, Chinese nation-state groups: BackdoorDiplomacy, APT15 and the APT41 subgroup Earth Longzhi.

Chinese hacking groups team up in cyber espionage campaign
2024-06-05 20:06

Chinese state-sponsored actors have been targeting a government agency since at least March 2023 in a cyberespionage campaign that researchers track as Crimson Palace. According to a report from cybersecurity company Sophos, the campaign relied on new malware variants and three different activity clusters that indicate a coordinated attack.

Chinese State-Backed Cyber Espionage Targets Southeast Asian Government
2024-06-05 11:20

An unnamed high-profile government organization in Southeast Asia emerged as the target of a "complex, long-running" Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage operation codenamed Crimson Palace....

Chinese national cuffed on charges of running 'likely the world's largest botnet ever'
2024-05-29 23:58

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New Frontiers, Old Tactics: Chinese Espionage Group Targets Africa & Caribbean Govts
2024-05-23 13:50

The China-linked threat actor known as Sharp Panda has expanded their targeting to include governmental organizations in Africa and the Caribbean as part of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign....

Inside Operation Diplomatic Specter: Chinese APT Group's Stealthy Tactics Exposed
2024-05-23 11:14

Governmental entities in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia are the target of a Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group as part of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation...

Researchers Warn of Chinese-Aligned Hackers Targeting South China Sea Countries
2024-05-22 14:15

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented threat group called Unfading Sea Haze that's believed to have been active since 2018. The intrusion singled out...

Chinese hackers hide on military and govt networks for 6 years
2024-05-22 13:25

Unfading Sea Haze attacks start with spear-phishing emails carrying malicious ZIP archives that contain LNK files disguised as documents. In earlier attacks, the hacker also used Ps2dllLoader, a tool that loads.

Chinese telco gear may become verboten on German networks
2024-05-20 06:28

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