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China’s Salt Typhoon Hacked Critical Infrastructure Globally for Years

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China’s Salt Typhoon Hacked Critical Infrastructure Globally for Years 2025-08-28 at 17:21 By Ionut Arghire China-linked APT ‘Salt Typhoon’ exploited known router flaws to maintain persistent access across telecom, government, and military networks, giving Beijing’s intelligence services global surveillance reach. The post China’s Salt Typhoon Hacked Critical Infrastructure Globally for Years appeared first on SecurityWeek. […]

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China-Linked Hackers Hijack Web Traffic to Deliver Backdoor

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China-Linked Hackers Hijack Web Traffic to Deliver Backdoor 2025-08-27 at 19:24 By Ionut Arghire Google researchers say China-linked UNC6384 combined social engineering, signed malware, and adversary-in-the-middle attacks to evade detection. The post China-Linked Hackers Hijack Web Traffic to Deliver Backdoor appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source React

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China-linked Murky Panda targets and moves laterally through cloud services

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China-linked Murky Panda targets and moves laterally through cloud services 2025-08-22 at 17:33 By Zeljka Zorz In its recently released 2025 Threat Hunting Report, Crowdstrike pointed out an interesting trend: a 136% surge in cloud intrusions. A good chunk of this surge is due to “China-nexus adversaries”, Murky Panda (aka Silk Typhoon) among them. Murky

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Chinese Researchers Suggest Lasers and Sabotage to Counter Musk’s Starlink Satellites

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Chinese Researchers Suggest Lasers and Sabotage to Counter Musk’s Starlink Satellites 2025-07-31 at 17:41 By Associated Press Chinese military and cyber researchers are intensifying efforts to counter Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite network, viewing it as a potential tool for U.S. military power across nuclear, space, and cyber domains. The post Chinese Researchers Suggest Lasers and

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Report Links Chinese Companies to Tools Used by State-Sponsored Hackers

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Report Links Chinese Companies to Tools Used by State-Sponsored Hackers 2025-07-31 at 14:59 By Ionut Arghire SentinelLabs connects the dots between prolific Chinese state-sponsored hackers and companies developing intrusion tools. The post Report Links Chinese Companies to Tools Used by State-Sponsored Hackers appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original

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Ports are getting smarter and more hackable

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Ports are getting smarter and more hackable 2025-07-23 at 08:31 By Sinisa Markovic A new policy brief from NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) warns that critical port infrastructure, responsible for 80 percent of global trade, is increasingly under attack by threat actors tied to Russia, Iran, and China. These ports are essential

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Microsoft pins on-prem SharePoint attacks on Chinese threat actors

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Microsoft pins on-prem SharePoint attacks on Chinese threat actors 2025-07-22 at 18:54 By Zeljka Zorz As Microsoft continues to update its customer guidance for protecting on-prem SharePoint servers against the latest in-the-wild attacks, more security firms have begun sharing details about the ones they have detected. Most intriguingly, Check Point Research says that they observed

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ToolShell Zero-Day Attacks on SharePoint: First Wave Linked to China, Hit High-Value Targets

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ToolShell Zero-Day Attacks on SharePoint: First Wave Linked to China, Hit High-Value Targets 2025-07-22 at 11:44 By Eduard Kovacs More details emerged on the ToolShell zero-day attacks targeting SharePoint servers, but confusion remains over the vulnerabilities. The post ToolShell Zero-Day Attacks on SharePoint: First Wave Linked to China, Hit High-Value Targets appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Mobile Forensics Tool Used by Chinese Law Enforcement Dissected

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Mobile Forensics Tool Used by Chinese Law Enforcement Dissected 2025-07-17 at 14:46 By Ionut Arghire Deployed on mobile devices confiscated by Chinese law enforcement, Massistant can collect user information, files, and location. The post Mobile Forensics Tool Used by Chinese Law Enforcement Dissected appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View

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China’s Salt Typhoon Hacked US National Guard

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China’s Salt Typhoon Hacked US National Guard 2025-07-16 at 12:25 By Ionut Arghire Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon targeted a National Guard unit’s network and tapped into communications with other units. The post China’s Salt Typhoon Hacked US National Guard appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source React

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TikTok Faces Fresh European Privacy Investigation Over China Data Transfers

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TikTok Faces Fresh European Privacy Investigation Over China Data Transfers 2025-07-11 at 12:04 By Associated Press The Irish Data Privacy Commission announced that TikTok is facing a new European Union privacy investigation into user data sent to China. The post TikTok Faces Fresh European Privacy Investigation Over China Data Transfers appeared first on SecurityWeek. This

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Alleged Chinese State Hacker Wanted by US Arrested in Italy

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Alleged Chinese State Hacker Wanted by US Arrested in Italy 2025-07-09 at 09:46 By Eduard Kovacs Xu Zewei has been arrested on charges that he is a member of the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group Hafnium (Silk Typhoon). The post Alleged Chinese State Hacker Wanted by US Arrested in Italy appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article

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Canada Gives Hikvision the Boot on National Security Grounds

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Canada Gives Hikvision the Boot on National Security Grounds 2025-06-30 at 13:18 By Ionut Arghire Canada has ordered Hikvision to cease all operations in the country and prohibited the purchase and use of Hikvision products within government entities. The post Canada Gives Hikvision the Boot on National Security Grounds appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article

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Chinese Hackers Target Chinese Users With RAT, Rootkit

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Chinese Hackers Target Chinese Users With RAT, Rootkit 2025-06-27 at 13:02 By Ionut Arghire China-linked Silver Fox hacking group is targeting Chinese users with fake installers carrying a RAT and a rootkit. The post Chinese Hackers Target Chinese Users With RAT, Rootkit appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original

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Bipartisan Bill Aims to Block Chinese AI From Federal Agencies

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Bipartisan Bill Aims to Block Chinese AI From Federal Agencies 2025-06-26 at 19:46 By Associated Press The proposal seeks to ban all use of the technology in the U.S. government, with exceptions for use in research and counterterrorism efforts. The post Bipartisan Bill Aims to Block Chinese AI From Federal Agencies appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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China’s Salt Typhoon Hackers Target Canadian Telecom Firms

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China’s Salt Typhoon Hackers Target Canadian Telecom Firms 2025-06-23 at 17:24 By Eduard Kovacs Canada’s Centre for Cyber Security and the FBI warn of Chinese hackers targeting telecommunications and other companies in Canada. The post China’s Salt Typhoon Hackers Target Canadian Telecom Firms appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View

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Stealthy backdoor found hiding in SOHO devices running Linux

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Stealthy backdoor found hiding in SOHO devices running Linux 2025-06-23 at 11:02 By Mirko Zorz SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE team has uncovered a network of compromised small office and home office (SOHO) devices they’re calling LapDogs. The threat is part of a broader shift in how China-Nexus threat actors are using Operational Relay Box (ORB) networks to

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Fog Ransomware Attack Employs Unusual Tools

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Fog Ransomware Attack Employs Unusual Tools 2025-06-13 at 13:20 By Ionut Arghire Multiple legitimate, unusual tools were used in a Fog ransomware attack, including one employed by Chinese hacking group APT41. The post Fog Ransomware Attack Employs Unusual Tools appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source React to

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LockBit panel data leak shows Chinese orgs among the most targeted

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LockBit panel data leak shows Chinese orgs among the most targeted 2025-06-12 at 17:17 By Zeljka Zorz The LockBit ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation has netted around $2.3 million USD within 5 months, the data leak stemming from the May 2025 hack of a LockBit affiliate panel has revealed. From that sum, the operators took their 20%

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Chinese Hackers and User Lapses Turn Smartphones Into a ‘Mobile Security Crisis’

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Chinese Hackers and User Lapses Turn Smartphones Into a ‘Mobile Security Crisis’ 2025-06-09 at 21:33 By Associated Press Foreign hackers have increasingly identified smartphones, other mobile devices and the apps they use as a weak link in U.S. cyberdefenses. The post Chinese Hackers and User Lapses Turn Smartphones Into a ‘Mobile Security Crisis’ appeared first

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