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'Quite obviously f**king espionage,' one suspect allegedly blabbed Two US Navy service members appeared in federal court Thursday accused of espionage and stealing sensitive military information for China in separate cases.…
WeChat accused of 'contempt for Parliament' as transparency rules floated for platforms An Australian Senate Committee has recommended banning Chinese social media apps in the land down under, on grounds the Communist Party of China uses them to spread propaganda and misinformation.…
Chinese state-sponsored hackers have been targeting industrial organizations with new malware that can steal data from air-gapped systems. [...]
A China-nexus cyber espionage campaign rages on with the fourth backdoor to surface in the wild that takes advantage of the CVE-2023-2868 zero-day security bug — with severe threat of lateral movement, CISA warns.
A nation-state actor with links to China is suspected of being behind a series of attacks against industrial organizations in Eastern Europe that took place last year to siphon data stored on air-gapped systems
As if attacks from China weren't enough, one of the Air Force's own has reportedly gone rogue The US government is fighting a pair of cyber security incidents, one involving Chinese spies who potentially gained access to crucial American computer networks and the other related to an Air Force engineer allegedly compromised communications security by stealing sensitive equipment and taking it home.…
Some say retaliation for sanctions, but Beijing says it just wants world peace China introduced restrictions on Monday that mean would-be exporters will require a license to ship certain drones and related equipment out of the Middle Kingdom.…
US officials are concerned that the Beijing-directed cyberattacks could be a precursor to military disruption and broader destructive attacks on citizens and businesses.
Threat actors associated with the hacking crew known as Patchwork have been spotted targeting universities and research organizations in China as part of a recently observed campaign
Chip giant washes its hands – but you can't stop secondary sales Chinese video surveillance equipment maker Hikvision was reportedly paid $6 million by Beijing last year to provide technology that could identify members of the nation's Uyghur people, a Muslim ethnic majority, according to physical security monitoring org IPVM.…
Chinese threat actor used malware in attacks
ALSO: China says US hacked it right back, BreachForums users have been pwned, and this week's critical vulns Infosec in brief US senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) thinks it's Microsoft's fault that Chinese hackers broke into Exchange Online, and he wants three separate government agencies to launch investigations and "hold Microsoft responsible for its negligent cyber security practices." …