The United States, the UK, and other countries this week accused a state-sponsored Chinese threat group of running a massive global hacking campaign for more than a decade that targeted political figures, journalists, businesses, political dissidents, and elections officials to steal information and spy on targets. U.S. Attorney Breon Peace called the work of the..

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UNC5174 ❤ UNC302: CVSS 10 and 9.8 vulnerabilities exploited by Chinese threat actor for People’s Republic.

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Top cybersecurity agencies in the United States and other countries are again warning critical infrastructure companies about the “urgent risk” posed by Chinese state-sponsored threat group Volt Typhoon and are recommending steps to harden their protections. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), and the FBI in an advisory reminded private..

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Free rides and traffic jams: U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency penetrated in February, via vuln in Ivanti.

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The federal government and cybersecurity teams are warning organizations that threat groups are exploiting multiple flaws in Ivanti’s VPN appliances despite the vendor’s Integrity Checking Tool (ICT) and even after factory resets. An advisory issued by the FBI, CISA, and international members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance came days after Google’s Mandiant team wrote..

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Underpaid, overworked and angry: Whistleblower in hacker contractor firm for Chinese government blows lid off tactics, techniques and procedures.

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The Biden Administration is moving to bolster cybersecurity at U.S. shipping ports, not only arming the Coast Guard with more responsibilities but also warning about the dangers of using Chinese-made equipment and promising to leverage the United States’ newfound manufacturing strength to make such systems at home. President Biden on Wednesday signed an Executive Order..

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Federal law enforcement kicked Russian state hackers off a botnet comprising at least hundreds of home office and small office routers that had been pulled together by a cybercriminal group and co-opted by the state-sponsored spies. APT28, an high-profile advanced persistent threat group linked to Russia’s GRU military intelligence group, used the network of Ubiquiti..

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Hackers with the Chinese state-sponsored threat group Volt Typhoon continue to hide away in computers and networks of U.S. critical infrastructure entities, “pre-positioning” themselves to disrupt operations if conflicts between the United States and China arise, according to the top U.S. cybersecurity agency. In a stark warning this week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency..

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A Chinese espionage group spotted last year by Mandiant researchers abusing a flaw that affected VMware virtualization tools has been exploiting another zero-day vulnerability in VMware’s vCenter Server since at least late 2021, according to the Google-owned cybersecurity company. VMware patched the bug, tracked as CVE-2023-34048, in October 2023, but Mandiant researchers Alexander Marvi, Shawn..

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