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A new investigation finds that a Chinese APT group is targeting Russian organizations with RAT backdoors
Alleged campaign involved stalking via GPS and hidden cameras, fake interviews, confidential government data Five suspects were indicted in a federal court in Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday for alleged crimes related to a campaign to silence dissidents in the US who opposed the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC).…
In a significant spike of activity, the state-sponsored group is going after intelligence on Russian government agencies.
Unprecedented joint press conference signals urgent need to act
Other US spooks chime in with similar warnings The directors of the UK Military Intelligence, Section 5 (MI5) and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday shared a public platform for the first time and warned of China's increased espionage activity on UK and US intellectual property.…
A developer appears to have divulged credentials to a police database on a popular developer forum, leading to a breach and subsequent bid to sell 23 terabytes of personal data on the dark web.
UK wants to follow US move to stop sales from equipment manufacturers A group of politicians and lawmakers in the UK have backed a campaign to ban the sale of CCTV systems made by companies alleged to introduce potential security issues as well as being linked to human rights abuses in China.…
A pro-China influence campaign singled out rare earth mining companies in Australia, Canada, and the U.S. with negative messaging in an unsuccessful attempt to manipulate public discourse to China's benefit
An anonymous hacker said they obtained the information from a leaked Shanghai National Police Database
Appears to have leaked from a cloud thanks to sloppy coding A threat actor has taken to a forum for news and discussion of data breaches with an offer to sell what they assert is a database containing records of over a billion Chinese civilians – allegedly stolen from the Shanghai Police.…
An anonymous threat actor is selling several databases they claim to contain terabytes of stolen information on roughly 1 billion Chinese citizens for 10 bitcoins (approximately $195,000). [...]