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A Chinese keyboard warrior inadvertently leaked information about politically motivated influence operations through a ChatGPT account.
PLUS: Debian supports Chinese chips ; Hong Kong’s Christmas Karaoke crackdown; Asahi admits it should have prevented hack; And more! APAC in Brief Google and Apple last week started to allow developers of mobile applications to distribute their wares through third-party app stores and accept payments from alternative payment providers.…
New China-aligned APT group is deploying Group Policy to sniff through government networks across Southeast Asia and Japan.
A previously undocumented China-aligned threat cluster dubbed LongNosedGoblin has been attributed to a series of cyber attacks targeting governmental entities in Southeast Asia and Japan
A critical security issue in a popular endpoint manager (CVE-2025-61932) allowed Chinese state-sponsored attackers to backdoor Japanese businesses.
The threat actors behind a malware family known as Winos 4.0 (aka ValleyRAT) have expanded their targeting footprint from China and Taiwan to target Japan and Malaysia with another remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as HoldingHands RAT (aka Gh0stBins)
PLUS: Japan woos Micron, again; China launches chip dumping probe; Mitsubishi expands opsec empire; and more! Criminals appear to be moving cyber-scam centers to vulnerable countries.…
Chinese threat actors have been feeding off the same Ivanti RCE vulnerabilities we've known about since last year, partly thanks to complications in patching.
PLUS: Broadband blimps to fly in Japan; Starbucks China put ads before privacy; and more! Asia In Brief Canada’s government has ordered Chinese CCTV systems vendor Hikvision to cease its local operations.…
Japan is being peppered with an overwhelming volume of spam, thanks to a new platform popular across the East China Sea.
PLUS: Indonesia crimps social media, allows iPhones; India claims rocket boost; In-flight GenAI for Japan Airlines Asia In Brief China last week commenced a crackdown on inappropriate collection and subsequent use of personal information.…
PLUS: Zoho's Ulaa anointed India’s most patriotic browser; Typhoon-like gang targets Taiwan; Japan debates offensive cyber-ops; and more Asia In Brief China’s Cyberspace Administration and Ministry of Public Security have outlawed the use of facial recognition without consent.…
MirrorFace Expands Operations, Revives Anel Backdoor for EspionageA threat actor associated with Chinese cyberespionage campaigns against Japan stepped outside its East Asian comfort zone to target a European organization with a refreshed set of hacking tools. A hacking group tracked as MirrorFace and Earth Kasha deployed a backdoor once exclusively used by APT10.
Japan is on a mission to catch up to the US standard of national cyber preparedness, and its new legislation is a measure intended to stop escalating Chinese cyber-espionage efforts, experts say.
PLUS: Japan shifts to pre-emptive cyber-defense; Thailand cuts cords connecting scam camps; China to launch 'moon hopper' in 2026; and more! Asia In Brief Huawei chair Liang Hua last week told a conference in China that the company expects to meet its revenue targets for 2024, meaning it earned around ¥860 billion ($118.25 billion) – 22 percent growth compared to its 2023 result.…
Since 2019, MirrorFace has been stealing information from myriad Japanese organizations to gain leverage over Japan in the event of hostilities between the two countries, experts said.
The National Police Agency (NPA) and the Cabinet Cyber Security Center in Japan have linked a cyber-espionage campaign targeting the country to the Chinese state-backed "MirrorFace" hacking group. [...]
Cyber-attacks by China-linked MirrorFace targeted Japan’s national security information in major campaigns operating since 2019
Japan's National Police Agency (NPA) and National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NCSC) accused a China-linked threat actor named MirrorFace of orchestrating a persistent attack campaign targeting organizations, businesses, and individuals in the country since 2019
‘MirrorFace’ group found ways to run malware in the Windows sandbox, which is worrying Japan’s National Police Agency and Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity have confirmed third party reports of attacks on local orgs by publishing details of a years-long series of attacks attributed to a China-backed source.…