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Chinese users looking for legitimate software such as Notepad++ and VNote on search engines like Baidu are being targeted with malicious ads and bogus links to distribute trojanized versions of...
In a letter to National Counterintelligence and Security Center director Michael Casey, US senator Ron Wyden urged the White House threat-intel arm to sound the alarm on commercial safes and locks. Most commercially available safes include manufacturer reset codes for their locks to help consumers if they lose or forget the code they set.
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the unsealing of an indictment against Linwei Ding, 38, a former software engineer at Google, suspected of stealing Google AI trade secrets for Chinese companies. The allegedly stolen trade secrets involve crucial technology underpinning Google's advanced supercomputing data centers, which are essential for training and hosting large AI models capable of processing nuanced language and generating intelligent responses.
The China-linked threat actor known as Evasive Panda orchestrated both watering hole and supply chain attacks targeting Tibetan users at least since September 2023. The end of the attacks is to...
The US Department of Justice on Wednesday revealed an indictment that charges a former Google employee with leaking the ad giant's AI tech to two Chinese companies - after easily defeating the Big G's security controls. The indictment names Linwei Ding, aka Leon Ding, and states that during his time at Google his job involved "Development of software that allowed GPUs to function efficiently for machine learning, AI applications, or other purposes required by Google or Google Cloud clients."
Concerned over the chance that Chinese-made cars could pose a future threat to national security, Biden's administration is proposing plans to probe potential threats posed by "Connected" vehicles made in the Middle Kingdom. The US president said he's putting the onus for sussing out the reality of the threat posed by Chinese automobiles on the Department of Commerce, which today said it issued an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking seeking public comment on the matter.
At least two different suspected China-linked cyber espionage clusters, tracked as UNC5325 and UNC3886, have been attributed to the exploitation of security flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure VPN...
Chinese PC maker Acemagic has admitted some of its products shipped with pre-installed malware. YouTuber The Net Guy found malware on Acemagic mini PCs when he tested them in early February.
A cache of stolen document posted to GitHub appears to reveal how a Chinese infosec vendor named I-Soon offers rent-a-hacker services for Beijing. Analysis of the docs by infosec vendor SentinelOne characterizes I-Soon as "a company who competes for low-value hacking contracts from many government agencies."
A Chinese-speaking threat actor codenamed GoldFactory has been attributed to the development of highly sophisticated banking trojans, including a previously undocumented iOS malware called...