An advanced persistent threat (APT) group operating with objectives aligned with the Chinese government has been linked to an organized supply chain attack on Taiwan's financial sector. The attacks are said to
According to the sources' claims, the Chinese government is particularly interested in identifying the entities that the US may be planning to target with financial sanctions. Earlier, the US Treasury Department claimed in a letter to lawmakers that purported Chinese state-sponsored hackers had breache...
U.S. officials are accusing Chinese hackers of breaking into secure government networks that hold personal information for all federal employees. Bob Orr reports from Washington on the data breach.
Suspected state-backed Chinese hackers exploited widely used networking devices to spy for months on dozens of high-value government, defense industry and financial sector targets in the U.S. and Europe, according to FireEye, a prominent cybersecurity firm. FireEye said Tuesday that it believes tw...
The department didn't provide details on how many workstations had been accessed or what sort of documents the hackers may have obtained, but said in a letter to lawmakers revealing the breach that "at this time there is no evidence indicating the threat actor has continued access to Treasury...
Nashville, Tennessee (Reuters) - Chinese government-linked hackers have burrowed into U.S. critical infrastructure and are waiting "for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow," FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Thursday. An ongoing Chinese hacking campaign known as Volt ...
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Citing unnamed U.S. officials, the Washington Post said hackers compromised the Office of Foreign Assets Control and the Office of Financial Research and also targeted the office of U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. The department earlier this week disclosed in a letter to lawmakers that...
CISA’s latest update on the US Treasury breach may support claims that China is keen to know what sanctions it may face as the US government grapples with foreign cyber intrusions. A typical supply chain attack In December, the US Treasury Department said Chinese hackers breached its IT ...
Chinese hackers hijacked Forbes.com and used the site as part of an attack on the U.S. defense and financial industry, according to cybersecurity researchers at iSIGHT Partners and Invincea.For three days late last year, the news site's "Thought of the Day" widget, which appears when ...