Top Apple, Google VPN Apps May Help China Spy on Users
Apple and Google espouse strong values about data privacy, but they allow programs from a Big Brother state to thrive on their app stores, researchers allege.
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Apple and Google espouse strong values about data privacy, but they allow programs from a Big Brother state to thrive on their app stores, researchers allege.
Cyber operations have become critical to national security, but the United States has fallen behind in one significant area — exploit production — while China has built up a significant lead.
The campaign infected devices in the US and Southeast Asia to build an operational relay box (ORB) network for use as an extensive cyber-espionage infrastructure.
The Canadian Center for Cybersecurity has confirmed that the Chinese state-sponsored cyber-threat actor targeted one of its telecommunications companies in February via a Cisco flaw, as part of global attack wave.