NORFOLK, Va.--At the Naval Network Warfare Command here, US cyber defenders track and investigate hundreds of suspicious events each day. But the predominant threat comes from Chinese hackers, who are constantly waging all-out warfare against DefenseJ Rogin...
The Chinese cyberattack group Deep Panda has compromised national security think tanks using sophisticated techniques designed to steal confidential data concerning US foreign policy, according to security researchers at CrowdStrike. TheCrowdStrike team saythat "several" national security-based think tanks ha...
In the case of The Times, security experts hired to investigate and plug the breach found that the attacks used tactics similar to ones used in previous hacking incidents traced to China, according to the paper. It said the hackers routed the attacks through computers at U.S. universities, i...
Chinese hackers broke into the system of the US Chamber of Commerce, gaining them access to “everything” on its network, reports theWall Street Journal. This includes personal information about the Chamber’s more than 3 million members. It is not clear how much data was compromised in the...
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 ...
In May, Microsoft said state-sponsored Chinese hackers called "Volt Typhoon" had infiltrated critical US infrastructure networks. Microsoft highlighted Guam, a US territory in the Pacific Ocean with a vital military outpost, as one of the targets in that attack, but said "malicious" activity had...
The publication says it is not obvious how far the hackers were able to penetrate the networks of the US Office of Personnel Management. Internet of Things The Times says an unnamed senior official claimed the recent attack was traced back to China, although it wasn't clear if the attack wa...
And some of the hackers are good. Scott Henderson has been tracking Chinese hacker groups for years and writes about them in his blog,www.thedarkvisitor.com, and his book of the same name. He’s watched the hackers become more sophisticated in tools and techniques. They’re stealthy. They...
Hackers from China spent up to five years in U.S. networks as part of a cyber operation that targeted U.S. critical infrastructure, law enforcement agencies said.
State-sponsored hackers based in China have been working to compromise critical infrastructure in the U.S.,Microsoft saidon Wednesday. It’s thought the attacks could lead to the disruption of important communications between the U.S. and its interests in Asia during future crises. ...