Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

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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.

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. [...]

The China-aligned threat actor known as MirrorFace has been observed targeting a diplomatic organization in the European Union, marking the first time the hacking crew has targeted an organization in the region

Cybersecurity agencies from Japan and the U.S. have warned of attacks mounted by a state-backed hacking group from China to stealthily tamper with branch routers and use them as jumping-off points to access the networks of various companies in the two countries