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Chinese Volt Typhoon state hackers failed to revive a botnet recently taken down by the FBI, which was previously used in attacks targeting critical infrastructure across the United States. After obtaining a court order authorizing it to dismantle the botnet on December 6, FBI agents took control of one of its command-and-control servers and cut off the Chinese hackers' access to the infected devices.

Chinese state-sponsored hackers have breached the Dutch Ministry of Defense last year and deployed a new remote access trojan malware to serve as a backdoor. "The effects of the intrusion were limited because the victim network was segmented from the wider MOD networks," the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service and the General Intelligence and Security Service noted.

Chinese state-backed hackers broke into a computer network that's used by the Dutch armed forces by targeting Fortinet FortiGate devices. "This [computer network] was used for unclassified...

A Chinese cyber-espionage group breached the Dutch Ministry of Defence last year and deployed malware on compromised devices, according to the Military Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands. During the follow-up investigation, a previously unknown malware strain named Coathanger, a remote access trojan designed to infect Fortigate network security appliances, was also discovered on the breached network.

Employment agencies and retail companies chiefly located in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region have been targeted by a previously undocumented threat actor known as ResumeLooters since early 2023 with...

A threat group named 'ResumeLooters' has stolen the personal data of over two million job seekers after compromising 65 legitimate job listing and retail sites using SQL injection and cross-site scripting attacks. ResumeLooters primarily employs SQL injection and XSS to breach targeted sites, mainly job-seeking and retail shops.

Four vulnerabilities collectively called "Leaky Vessels" allow hackers to escape containers and access data on the underlying host operating system. Containers are applications packaged into a file that contains all the runtime dependencies, executables, and code required to run an application.

The decentralized social network Mastodon has disclosed a critical security flaw that enables malicious actors to impersonate and take over any account. "Due to insufficient origin validation in...

AnyDesk confirmed today that it suffered a recent cyberattack that allowed hackers to gain access to the company's production systems. In a statement shared with BleepingComputer late Friday afternoon, AnyDesk says they first learned of the attack after detecting indications of an incident on their product servers.

AnyDesk confirmed today that it suffered a recent cyberattack that allowed hackers to gain access to the company's production systems. In a statement shared with BleepingComputer, AnyDesk says they first learned of the attack after detecting indications of an incident on their product servers.