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FishMonger, a China-nexus threat group, has deployed an undocumented version of the Linux backdoor against government targets in Honduras, Taiwan, Thailand, and Pakistan.
A Taiwanese student experimenting with software-defined radio technology shut down three bullet trains for nearly an hour, leading to an anti-terrorism response.
Only Taiwan made the top 10 list of governments, effectively blocking the threat-ridden protocol, but overall the region lagged in curbing Telnet traffic.
Chinese cyberattacks on Taiwan's critical infrastructure — including energy utilities and hospitals — rose 6% in 2025, averaging 2.63 million attacks a day.
While satellite constellations — such as Starlink — are resilient, 2,000 drones could cut communications to a region the size of Taiwan, researchers find.
AI might help some threat actors in certain respects, but one group is proving that its use for cyberattacks has its limits.
Chinese threat actors have turned to cyberattacks as a way to undermine and destabilize Taiwan's most important industrial sector.
The attack uses sideloading to deliver a variant of the popular Gh0stRAT malware and lures victims by posing — among other things — as a purported installer for DeepSeek's LLM.
The emerging group has already gotten its teeth into 16 victims since May with its double extortion tactics, claiming victims in 11 countries, including the US, Thailand, and Taiwan.
Since at least January, the threat actor has been employing multiple malware tools to steal information for potential future attacks against Taiwanese businesses and government agencies.
Tidrone concentrated on military entities and the satellite sector, using their associated service providers and ERP software to infect not just drones but all the entities that are part of their supply chains.
The China-linked cyber-operations group, better known as Lotus Panda, uses its own custom malware to focus on government agencies and private companies in Hong Kong, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
Trend Micro researchers detailed an emerging ransomware campaign by a new group known as "CrazyHunter" that is targeting critical sectors in Taiwan.
Threat actors are trolling online forums and spreading malicious apps to target Uyghurs, Taiwanese, Tibetans, and other individuals aligned with interests that China sees as a threat to its authority.
A ransomware activity wave using the SocGholish MaaS framework for initial access also has affected banking and consulting firms in the US, Taiwan, and Japan since the beginning of the year.
The threat actor, of unknown origin, is deploying a proprietary backdoor malware known as "Sagerunex" against critical infrastructure in Hong Kong, Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
At Black Hat and DEF CON, cybersecurity experts were asked to game out how Taiwan could protect its communications and power infrastructure in case of invasion by China.
In 2024, the Taiwanese government saw the daily average of attempted attacks by China double to 2.4 million, with a focus on government targets and telecommunications firms.
The APT group uses spear-phishing and a vulnerability in a geospatial data-sharing server to compromise organizations in Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea.
Hackers sent a convincing lure document, but after 20 years of similar attacks, the target organization was well prepared.