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Stolen data from Chunghwa Telecom — including government-related details — are up for sale on the Dark Web, the Taiwanese defense ministry confirms.
President Biden warned that connected vehicles built in China could be used to steal sensitive data of US citizens and critical infrastructure
Officials Express Concern Over Growing Potential for Chinese Maritime CyberthreatsOfficials from the U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command told lawmakers Thursday the military branch is building out deployable teams of cybersecurity protection units and taking advantage of expanded authorities under a recent executive order to better protect Americas modern maritime infrastructure.
More bad news for Ivanti customers: soon, even if you've patched, you still might not be safe from relentless attacks from high-level Chinese threat actors.
Also: Malware Campaign Hits GitHub, Affects Over 100,000 ReposThis week, the Biden administration urged software developers to adopt memory-safe programming languages and moved to restrict Chinese connected cars, a pharma giant was breached, researchers found malicious repos in GitHub, the Phobos RaaS group is targeting the U.S., and Zyxel patched devices.
No Chinese automakers sell cars in the US, but the feds are still going to investigate whether they're a threat Concerned over the chance that Chinese-made cars could pose a future threat to national security, Biden's administration is proposing plans to probe potential threats posed by "connected" vehicles made in the Middle Kingdom.…
A new presidential executive order attempts to prevent the mass sales of personal data to countries like China and Russia
At least two different suspected China-linked cyber espionage clusters, tracked as UNC5325 and UNC3886, have been attributed to the exploitation of security flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure VPN appliances
Tried to speed boot times, maybe by messing with 'Windows source code', ended up building a viral on-ramp Chinese PC maker Acemagic has admitted some of its products shipped with pre-installed malware.…
UNC5325 Can Remain in Hacked Devices Despite Factory Reset and PatchesChinese threat actors are continuing to persist after exploiting the recent Ivanti Connect Secure VPN vulnerability even after factory resets, system upgrades and patches. The threat actor, UNC5325, is adept at "living off the land" techniques, warned threat intelligence firm Mandiant.
The China-backed APT that's been trying to set itself up inside US critical infrastructure for the purpose of disrupting physical processes is deploying a similar playbook in Africa.
U.S. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that aims to ban the bulk sale and transfer of Americans' private data to "countries of concern" such as China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela. [...]
New Order Tasks Department of Justice with Developing Data Transfer ProtectionsU.S. President Joe Biden is set to sign Wednesday an executive order aimed at preventing the large-scale transfer of Americans' sensitive personal data to countries including China. The order will set off a rulemaking process spearheaded by the Department of Justice.
Biden readies executive order targeting China, Russia, and pals US President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order today that aims to prevent the sale or transfer of Americans' sensitive personal information and government-related data to adversarial countries including China and Russia.…
Scammers' tactics are tiresomely familiar: get-rich-quick schemes and data harvesting China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has warned local netizens that fake wallet apps for the nation's central bank digital currency (CBDC) are already circulating and being abused by scammers.…
Government will provide additional cybersecurity training and recruit additional cybersecurity talent in an effort to better secure its industrial sector from attacks.
During our monitoring of Earth Lusca, we noticed a new campaign that used Chinese-Taiwanese relations as a social engineering lure to infect selected targets.