In China, state-affiliated hacker groups dubbed Raspberry Typhoon, Flax Typhoon, and Granite Typhoon have increasingly targeted Taiwan, as well as Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand. Volt Typhoon has targeted the US,infiltratingUS infrastructure organizations, and Salt Typhoon reportedlybreac...
Spyware Campaign Targets Sino Minority Groups Via WeChat Anviksha More • December 6, 2024 A possible Chinese state threat group is targeting vulnerabilities in messaging apps to deliver spyware in cross-platform devices used by members of ethnic minorities targeted for repression by Beijing. Trend...
Microsoft said that the threat actor proxies internet traffic through compromised small office or home office routers in a bid to make itself harder to detect (see: Chinese State Hacker 'Volt Typhoon' Targets Guam and US). New revelations about Chinese hacking activity are a near constant in ...
While suspected threat actors will not be extradited to stand trial, or likely even be arrested, some infosec professionals and law enforcement officials say the indictments hamper nation-stateadvanced persistent threat(APT) groups. Indictments put a name and possibly face to the attackers and...
A recent campaign undertaken byEarth Pretaindicates that nation-state groups aligned with China are getting increasingly proficient at bypassing security solutions. Thethreat actor, active since at least 2012, is tracked by the broader cybersecurity community under Bronze President, HoneyMyte, Mustang Pa...
Following the release of Zero-Day Initiative's report, hacker groups began to scan the internet for vulnerable Exchange servers which they could launch attacks against in the future. Weaponizing the vulnerability In a newblog post, Volexity revealed that cybercriminals' scans for vulnerable Exchange...
A Russian state-backed hacker group used third-party data-stealing bots and possibly a backdoor used by another Russia-based threat group to infiltrate and spy on devices used by frontline Ukrainian military units, according to a report from the Microsoft threat intelligence team. Article GovWare...
Other nation-states instead employ hacker groups or collectives by either sponsoring them with money and equipment, or working out a deal, i.e., if you don't attack us, we will let you do whatever you want, but you're going to give us any zero-day vulnerabilities that...
Google omitted many more details than just the name of the government behind the hacks, and through that information, the teams knew internally who the hacker and targets were. It is not clear whether Google gave advance notice to government officials that they would be publicizing a...
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