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...
Red hat hacker 红帽黑客 Term used for hackers loyal to the PRC Selling dog meat by hanging a sheep’s head 挂羊头卖狗肉 Term used for data brokers because of their deception; selling second-hand, low quality data Angels and demons 天使与魔鬼 Term used to describe the Chinese Public Secu...
Hackers from China have been conducting a cyberattack campaign against prominent universities in the United States in the hopes of stealing valuable information for military purposes. The University of Hawaii, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Washington are among ...
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...
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. ...
In the past weeks, major media outlets likeThe Washington Post,Wall Street Journal,andThe New York Timeshave been hacked. The latter reported that it believed the Chinese military was involved in the four-month-long attack on its systems; a charge thatChina staunchly denied. According toThe Ti...
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...