Microsoft breach led to theft of 60,000 US State Dept emails
Chinese hackers stole tens of thousands of emails from U.S. State Department accounts after breaching Microsoft's cloud-based Exchange email platform in May. [...]
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Chinese hackers stole tens of thousands of emails from U.S. State Department accounts after breaching Microsoft's cloud-based Exchange email platform in May. [...]
A Chinese cyber-espionage hacking group tracked as Budworm has been observed targeting a telecommunication firm in the Middle East and a government entity in Asia using a new variant of its custom 'SysUpdate' backdoor. [...]
A joint cybersecurity advisory by the FBI, NSA, CISA, and the Japanese NISC (cybersecurity) and NPA (police) sheds light on the techniques the Chinese threat actors known as BlackTech use to attack Japanese and U.S. organizations. [...]