The Chinese cyber threat is "unparalleled" by any other national security challenge seen by the U.S. government, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray. China, seemingly gearing up to invade Taiwan within years or even months, poses the most significant threat to the United ...
A four-month long cyberattack against The New York Times is the latest in a long string of breaches said to be by China-based hackers into corporate and government computer systems across the United States. The Times attacks, routed through computers at U.S. universities, ta...
For years, the majority of industry security research and public reporting has focused on cybercriminals based in Western countries and Russia. While there’s cause for this – many sophisticated cyberattacks and subsequent data leaks have been attributed to cybercriminal groups based in those ...
The Chinese information war: espionage, cyberwar,communications control and related threats to United States interestsWhat is "war"? Are we in one? If so, how do we know it? These are the primary questions addressed by the author in this book. He lays out a case that the Chinese ...
Tom Hegel is a Principal Threat Researcher with SentinelOne. He comes from a background of detection and analysis of malicious actors, malware, and global events with an application to the cyber domain. His past research has focused on threats impacting individuals and organizations across the world...
was taking in other words to find and prepare to destroy or degrade the civilian critical infrastructure that keeps us safe and prosperous," Wray told a House panel last week. "And let's be clear, cyber threats to our critical infrastructure represent real world threats to our...
Officials in the United States have rebuffed suggestions that the surveillance by the N.S.A. was in any way comparable to Chinese cyberspying. One intelligence employee, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the delicacy of the issue, said the two situations — China's stealing of tra...
Interestingly, parts of the attack sequence were previously detailed by Mandiant in September 2021, while pointing out the misuse of CLFS to hide second-stage payloads in an attempt to circumvent detection. The cybersecurity firm attributed the malware to an unknown actor, but cautioned that it ...
"Cyber threat actors also continue to identify large repositories of credentials that are available on the internet to enable brute-force attacks," the agency said. "While this sort of activity is not a direct result of the exploitation of emergent vulnerabilities, it demonstrates that cyber threat...
In "The Impact of China on Cybersecurity: Fiction and Friction," Jon Lindsay asserts that the threat of Chinese cyber operations, though "relentlessly irritating," is greatly exaggerated; that China has more to fear from U.S. cyber operations than the United States does from China; and that...