Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Newly named Chinese-speaking actor TA4922 expands from East Asia into Europe and Africa

China-linked Webworm APT expands beyond Asia, targeting European government organizations and refining its cyber espionage tactics, according to ESET research

Chinese state-backed group TA416 had suspended its cyber espionage operations in Europe since 2023, noted Proofpoint

China’s Ink Dragon is using European government networks to hide its espionage activity

Ireland’s data protection watchdog accuses the Chinese social media giant of violating GDPR with transfers of European users’ data to China

NVISO discovered new variants of the BRICKSTORM backdoor, initially designed for Linux, on Windows systems

The attacks rely on novel delivery methods to deploy a variant of PlugX

The group previously targeted government agencies and think tanks in Asia and Europe

UNC4191 operations have affected several entities in Southeast Asia but also in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific Japan

The news comes from the social media giant’s head of privacy in Europe, Elaine Fox

The phishing emails contained Microsoft Word documents that exploited the CVE-2017-11882 flaw