China's Webworm Uses Discord, Microsoft Graphs to Hack EU Governments
The advanced persistent threat group also relied on SOCKS proxies like SoftEther VPN, tunneling tools that act as a middleman between victim and attacker.
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The advanced persistent threat group also relied on SOCKS proxies like SoftEther VPN, tunneling tools that act as a middleman between victim and attacker.
Advanced persistent threat (APT) groups have deployed new cyber weapons against a variety of targets, highlighting the increasing threats to the region.
Sysdig researchers detailed an ongoing campaign from China-backed threat actor UNC5174, which is using open source hacking tools to stay under the radar.
Infiltrating other nations' telecom networks is a cornerstone of China's geopolitical strategy, and it's having the unintended consequence of driving the uptake of encrypted communications.
The scale of Beijing's systematic tapping of private industry and universities to build up its formidable hacking and cyber-warfare capabilities is larger than previously understood.
With the requirement that all vulnerabilities first get reported to the Chinese government, once-private vulnerability research has become a goldmine for China's offensive cybersecurity programs.
A federal review board demanded that the tech giant prioritize its "inadequate" security posture, putting the blame solely on the company for last year's Microsoft 365 breach that allowed China's Storm-0558 to hack the email accounts of key government officials.
Chinese government agencies are paying an APT, masked as a legitimate company, to spy on foreign and domestic targets of political interest.
After the US and its allies formally accused China of irresponsible and malicious behavior in cyberspace back in 2021, the government there has been on a mission to cast the US in the same light.
An infamous Chinese cyber-hacking team has extended its SysUpdate malware framework to target Linux systems.