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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...

Chinese Hackers Use CloudScout Toolset to Steal Session Cookies from Cloud Services
2024-10-28 17:26

A government entity and a religious organization in Taiwan were the target of a China-linked threat actor known as Evasive Panda that infected them with a previously undocumented post-compromise...

US says Chinese hackers breached multiple telecom providers
2024-10-28 16:05

The FBI and the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have disclosed that Chinese hackers breached commercial telecommunication service providers in the United States. [...]

No, The Chinese Have Not Broken Modern Encryption Systems with a Quantum Computer
2024-10-22 11:03

The headline is pretty scary: “China’s Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption.” No, it’s not true. This debunking saved me the trouble of writing one. It all seems to have...

Chinese Nation-State Hackers APT41 Hit Gambling Sector for Financial Gain
2024-10-21 13:08

The prolific Chinese nation-state actor known as APT41 (aka Brass Typhoon, Earth Baku, Wicked Panda, or Winnti) has been attributed to a sophisticated cyber attack targeting the gambling and...

Crypto-apocalypse soon? Chinese researchers find a potential quantum attack on classical encryption
2024-10-14 06:30

With an off-the-shelf D-Wave machine Chinese researchers claim they have found a way to use D-Wave's quantum annealing systems to develop a promising attack on classical encryption.…

Chinese cyberspies reportedly breached Verizon, AT&T, Lumen
2024-10-07 17:17

Salt Typhoon may have accessed court-ordered wiretaps and US internet traffic Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies were among the US broadband providers whose networks were reportedly hacked by...

Binance claims it helped to bust Chinese crypto scam app in India
2024-09-30 01:28

Plus: SpaceX plans Vietnam investment; Yahoo! Japan content moderation secrets; LG offloads Chinese display factory; and more ASIA IN BRIEF It's not often The Register writes about a...