Security News

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...

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...