Tag: Advanced persistent threat

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Advanced persistent threat

Cybersecurity Month

High-tech workers in China

Beijing-backed burglars master .NET to target government web servers

‘Phantom Taurus’ created custom malware to hunt secrets across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East

Digital eggs cracked

Beijing went to 'EggStreme' lengths to attack Philippines military, researchers say

Ovoid-themed in-memory malware offers a menu for mayhem

USA and Taiwan allied against china

China accuses Taiwan of running five feeble APT gangs, with US help

The authors who claimed America hacked itself to discredit Beijing are back with another report

Taipei, Taiwan

Meet TeamT5, the Taiwanese infosec outfit taking on Beijing and defeating its smears

Living in the eye of the geopolitical storm is not easy, but is good for business

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Someone holding up a copy of the Wall Street Journal newspaper at a newsstand

News Corp outfoxed by IT intruders for years

All the news that's fit to pwn

Late

FBI catches up with infosec and crypto communities, blames Lazarus Group for $100 million heist

Well played, feds. What's next? Ransomware is rampant? Strong passwords are important?

Not again road sign with cloudy background

Citrix patches critical ADC flaw the NSA says is already under attack from China

Yet more pain for the software formerly known as NetScaler

malwarespider

Ordinary web access request or command to malware?

Cranefly group unleashes nasty little technique using Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) logs

microsoft

If someone tries ransacking your Windows network, it's a bit easier now to grok in Microsoft 365 Defender

Blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing...

malware

Want to sneak a RAT into Windows? Buy Quantum Builder on the dark web

Beware what could be hiding in those LNK shortcuts

Wind turbine, image via Shutterstock

China-linked APT40 gang targets wind farms, Australian government

ScanBox installed after victims lured to fake Murdoch news sites with phishing emails

A hacker inside a corporate network

It's 2022 and there are still thousands of public systems using password-less VNC

Let alone the ones with 123456 to login. How sophisticated do attackers really need to be?

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China and Belgian flags

Belgium says Chinese cyber gangs attacked its government and military

China, as usual, says it just wants a peaceful and prosperous internet

China flag binaries

Beijing probes security at academic journal database

It's easy to see why – the question is, why now?

trap

Chinese-sponsored gang Gallium upgrades to sneaky PingPull RAT

Broadens targets from telecoms to finance and government orgs

China dragon

Chinese 'Aoqin Dragon' gang runs undetected ten-year espionage spree

Researcher spots it targeting Asian government and telco targets, probably with Beijing's approval

Sidewinder snake and tracks

APT gang 'Sidewinder' goes on two-year attack spree across Asia

Launches almost 1,000 raids, plenty with upgraded malware

Illustration of a China backdoor

Beijing-backed gang looted IP around the world for years, claims Cybereason

Infosec outfit says group avoided detection by hiding payloads in undocumented Windows logs

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