Nation-State
Xu Zewei has been arrested on charges that he is a member of the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group Hafnium (Silk Typhoon).
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Government
Canada has ordered Hikvision to cease all operations in the country and prohibited the purchase and use of Hikvision products within government entities.
Malware & Threats
China-linked Silver Fox hacking group is targeting Chinese users with fake installers carrying a RAT and a rootkit.
Artificial Intelligence
The proposal seeks to ban all use of the technology in the U.S. government, with exceptions for use in research and counterterrorism efforts.
Cyberwarfare
Canada’s Centre for Cyber Security and the FBI warn of Chinese hackers targeting telecommunications and other companies in Canada.
Ransomware
Multiple legitimate, unusual tools were used in a Fog ransomware attack, including one employed by Chinese hacking group APT41.
Mobile & Wireless
Foreign hackers have increasingly identified smartphones, other mobile devices and the apps they use as a weak link in U.S. cyberdefenses.
Incident Response
Anti-malware vendor said it spent the past twelve months deflecting a stream of network reconnaissance probes from China-nexus threat actors
Mobile & Wireless
iVerify links iPhone crashes to sophisticated zero-click attacks via iMessage targeting individuals involved in politics in the EU and US.
Nation-State
China issued warrants for 20 Taiwanese people it said carried out hacking missions in the Chinese mainland on behalf of the island’s ruling party.
Nation-State
China-linked hackers used a compromised government site to target other government entities with the ToughProgress malware that uses an attacker-controlled Google Calendar for C&C.
Application Security
Active since at least 2023, the hacking group has been targeting the financial, government, IT, logistics, retail, and education sectors.
Data Breaches
The Czech government issues a blunt warning to China after APT31 hackers linked to intrusion at critical infrastructure network.
Malware & Threats
A Chinese threat actor exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Trimble Cityworks to hack local government entities in the US.
Malware & Threats
A Chinese espionage group has been chaining two recent Ivanti EPMM vulnerabilities in attacks against organizations in multiple critical sectors.
Vulnerabilities
Hundreds of SAP NetWeaver instances hacked via a zero-day that allows remote code execution, not only arbitrary file uploads, as initially believed.
Malware & Threats
ESET has analyzed Spellbinder, the IPv6 SLAAC spoofing tool Chinese APT TheWizards uses to deploy its WizardNet backdoor.
Incident Response
SentinelOne has shared some information on the types of threat actors that have targeted the security firm recently.
Cyberwarfare
As Xi Jinping advances his vision for China’s dominance by 2049, cybersecurity experts warn that connected technologies—like EV batteries—may quietly serve as tools of...
Data Breaches
Microsoft security chief Charlie Bell says the SFI's 28 objectives are “near completion” and that 11 others have made “significant progress.”
IoT Security
PCA Cyber Security has discovered critical vulnerabilities in the BlueSDK Bluetooth stack that could have allowed remote code execution on car systems.
Artificial Intelligence
Network Security
Mobile & Wireless
Details have been disclosed for an eSIM hacking method that could impact many, but the industry is taking action.
Data Breaches
Cybersecurity Funding
Artificial Intelligence