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Restrictions Highlight Growing U.S.-China AI Security TensionsJPMorgan Chase removed Anthropic's Claude models from its approved AI platform for employees in Hong Kong, following restrictions tied to Greater China access rules and underscoring how U.S. export controls and geopolitical concerns are reshaping enterprise AI adoption in global financial markets.

Vital Service Providers Need a Plan to Work Through Internet Outages, CISA SaysCritical U.S. infrastructure like water, power and even banking systems will be successfully hacked by enemy cyber warriors in the event of a military confrontation with a peer adversary like Russia or China, officials from the nation's civilian cyber defense agency said.

China-linked FishMonger used two SprySOCKS Windows variants that leveraged kernel drivers and the Print Spooler to target governments in four countries. ESET researchers have found two previously undocumented Windows versions of SprySOCKS, a backdoor that the security community had until now treated as Linux-only. Trend Micro first documented the Linux variant in September 2023 and […]

Threat Actor Silently Forwarded Sensitive Emails Matching Strategic TopicsGoogle says Chinese espionage group UNC6508 compromised REDCap environments at North American research institutions, deployed custom malware, stole credentials and covertly forwarded strategically relevant emails through abused compliance rules to support long-term intelligence collection.

FishMonger, a China-nexus threat group, has deployed an undocumented version of the Linux backdoor against government targets in Honduras, Taiwan, Thailand, and Pakistan.

Experts Say White House Export Ban Risks Adoption Boost for China's AI AlternativesNew export controls on artificial intelligence startup Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos large language models, over their vulnerability-discovery capabilities, must be lifted, not least because Chinese models will soon offer equal capabilities, cybersecurity experts warned the Trump administration.

China-linked SprySOCKS backdoor gains stealthy Windows variants and 30-plus C2 commands

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two previously undocumented Windows variants of what was believed to be a Linux-only backdoor called SprySOCKS

Researchers Identified Two Undocumented Variants Used Since 2023Eset uncovered two previously undocumented Windows variants of the China-linked SprySocks backdoor tied to FishMonger and iSoon, revealing expanded espionage capabilities, rootkit-based stealth and continued targeting of government organizations across Asia and Central America.

China’s UNC6508 hid in North American medical research networks for 2 years, stealing credentials and forwarding emails to Gmail Google’s Threat Intelligence Group published a report this week on UNC6508, a China-linked cyberespionage group that breached North American medical and military research organizations and stayed hidden for more than two years. The earliest confirmed intrusion […]

The revelation mirrors an alarming pattern of Chinese espionage groups dropping backdoors into critical infrastructure to intercept research and steal data with national security implications. The post Google exposes China espionage group that’s been lurking in networks undetected since 2023 appeared first on CyberScoop.

A China-linked espionage group hid inside North American medical, academic, and military research networks for more than a year, quietly stealing sensitive research and defense email

Google discovered and disrupted the sprawling campaign, which stole RedCAP credentials to breach numerous institutions and exfiltrate sensitive data.

A China-linked espionage campaign targeted exposed REDCap servers to deploy the InfiniteRed malware and steal sensitive data from a medical institution in North America. [...]

In a coordinated effort, the FBI, working with Google and Black Lotus Labs, has dismantled a massive Chinese phishing-as-a-service operation called Outsider Enterprise with thousands of phishing websites used to steal credit card data and passwords. [...]