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The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has revealed how a Chinese national posed as a U.S. researcher as part of a spear-phishing campaign to obtain sensitive information from the space agency, as well as from government entities, universities, and private companies, in violation of export control laws

UK government Minister confirms that breached health records of UK Biobank volunteers were up for sale on Chinese ecommerce platforms before being removed

Chinese-speaking individuals are the target of a new campaign that uses a trojanized version of SumatraPDF reader to deploy the AdaptixC2 Beacon post-exploitation agent and ultimately facilitate the abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) tunnels for remote access

Demonstrated in China, probably applicable elsewhere

Demonstrated in China, probably applicable elsewhere Black Hat Asia Developers of rented internet of things infrastructure – stuff like public EV chargers and shared e-bikes – are prioritizing user convenience over security, and leaving themselves exposed to wide-scale denial of service attacks on their services.…

The Chinese state-sponsored cyber threat is known for moving fast and trying odd attack vectors; now it's branching out in tools, victimology, and TTPs.

The threat actor gave itself plenty of options to support command and control, tapping Microsoft Outlook, Slack, Discord, and file.io for online espionage.

China's state-backed groups are now using covert networks of compromised devices to execute attacks in a low-cost, low-risk, and deniable way.

All the Typhoons, everywhere, all at once A majority of China-linked threat actors are using compromised routers and IoT devices worldwide, turning this gear into proxy networks to carry out further intrusions, steal sensitive data, and disrupt victim organizations’ operations, according to a joint 10-country advisory.…

Routing Malicious Traffic Through Hacked IoT Devices Is Leading to 'IoC Extinction'Networks comprised of hacked domestic devices underpin a mounting number of Chinese nation-state hacking operations, warned British, U.S. and a slew of other national cybersecurity agencies. The networks comprise small office home office routers, IoT equipment and smart devices.

The joint warning describes a major tactical shift by Chinese-linked hackers and lays out what organizations should do about it. The post A dozen allied agencies say China is building covert hacker networks out of everyday routers appeared first on CyberScoop.

World's largest biomedical dataset lifted and shifted on Chinese mega marketplace Updated Details of volunteers of UK-based Biobank, which describes itself as the custodian of the world's most comprehensive biomedical dataset, are for sale on Chinese ecommerce site Alibaba.…

The United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK) and international partners warned that China-nexus hackers are increasingly using large-scale proxy networks of hijacked consumer devices to evade detection and disguise their malicious activity. [...]

Eset Researchers Discover Trove of Go-Based MalwareResearchers uncovered a Chinese-linked cyberespionage group after attackers left command and control credentials embedded in malware, exposing internal operations, testing environments and thousands of messages tied to campaigns targeting a Mongolia government agency.

Mongolian governmental institutions have emerged as the target of a previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as GopherWhisper

NCSC boss says China's whole-of-state cyber machine has become Britain's peer competitor in cyberspace State-sponsored cyberattacks from Chinese intelligence and military agencies display "an eye-watering level of sophistication," UK National Cyber Security Centre CEO Richard Horne is expected to say in a less-than-cheery opening speech to kick off its annual conference.…

China is spying on India's financial sector, for some reason, and it's not putting much effort into it, judging by some stale TTPs.

And China is loving it Iranian media is claiming that the US used backdoors and/or botnets to disable networking equipment during the current war, and Chinese state media is dining out on the allegations.…

A set of 26 malicious apps on Apple App Store impersonate popular wallets, such as Metamask, Coinbase, Trust Wallet, and OneKey, to steal recovery or seed phrases and drain them of cryptocurrency assets. [...]