Enlarge (credit: FT montage | Getty Images | Dreamstime) Chinese university students have been lured to work at a secretive technology company that masked the true nature of their jobs: researching western targets for spying and translating hacked documents as part of Beijing’s industrial-scale intelligence regime. The Financial Times has identified and contacted 140 potential… Read More »
Matejmo | Getty Images reader comments 74 with 51 posters participating Share this story Hackers including Chinese state-backed groups have launched more than 840,000 attacks on companies globally since last Friday, according to researchers, through a previously unnoticed vulnerability in a widely used piece of open-source software called Log4J. Cyber security group Check Point said… Read More »
Enlarge / US President Joe Biden, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo attend a plenary session of a NATO summit at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels, on June 14, 2021. reader comments 112 with 70 posters participating Share this story President Joe Biden has warned… Read More »
reader comments 122 with 83 posters participating Share this story China state hackers are compromising large numbers of home and office routers for use in a vast and ongoing attack against organizations in France, authorities from that county said. The hacking group—known in security circles as APT31, Zirconium, Panda, and other names—has historically conducted espionage… Read More »
Getty Images | cbarnesphotography reader comments 21 with 15 posters participating Share this story The US government blamed the Chinese government on Monday for attacks on thousands of Microsoft Exchange servers. China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) “has fostered an ecosystem of criminal contract hackers who carry out both state-sponsored activities and cybercrime for their… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 11 with 10 posters participating Share this story Microsoft said on Tuesday that hackers operating in China exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a SolarWinds product. According to Microsoft, the hackers were, in all likelihood, targeting software companies and the US Defense industry. SolarWinds disclosed the zero-day on Monday, after receiving notification… Read More »
Enlarge / A staff member works beside China’s ‘Sunway TaihuLight’ supercomputer at the National Supercomputer Center on August 29, 2020 in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province of China. China News Service | Getty Images reader comments 117 with 49 posters participating Share this story The US has placed Chinese groups accused of building supercomputers to help the… Read More »
Enlarge / Computer chip with Chinese flag, 3d conceptual illustration. reader comments 74 with 43 posters participating Share this story Fortune 500 companies aren’t the only ones flocking to cloud services like Microsoft Azure. Increasingly, hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government are also hosting their tools in the cloud, and that’s keeping people… Read More »