Tag: china
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Hackers Used Snappybee Malware and Citrix Flaw to Breach European Telecom Network
A European telecommunications organization is said to have been targeted by a threat actor that aligns with a China-nexus cyber espionage group known as Salt Typhoon.The organization, per Darktrace, was targeted in the first week of July 2025, with the attackers exploiting a Citrix NetScaler Gateway appliance to obtain initial access.Salt Typhoon, also known as…
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Salt Typhoon Targets European Telecom
Attack Began With Citrix NetScaler Gateway Compromise, Darktrace Said. The Chinese cyberespionage hackers commonly tracked as Salt Typhoon haven’t stopped their campaign against global telecoms, says managed threat detection firm Darktrace. The group has made telecoms and other digital infrastructure a primary target. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/salt-typhoon-targets-european-telecom-a-29766
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China blames US for cyber break-in, claims America is world’s biggest bit burglar
‘US is “¦ the greatest source of chaos in cyberspace’ First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/china_accuses_us_cyber_warfare/
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China’s spy agency accuses NSA of yearslong attack on the country’s timekeeping service
The NSA did not confirm nor deny the allegations made by China’s Ministry of State Security. China said the origins of the attack date back to March 2022. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/china-mss-nsa-cyberattack-timekeeping-service/
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China claims it caught US attempting cyberattack on national time center
Chinese authorities accused the U.S. of compromising the National Time Service Center, a research institute responsible for providing timekeeping services in China for national security applications. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/china-attack-national-time-center
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China-linked Salt Typhoon hackers attempt to infiltrate European telco
Salt Typhoon, the China-linked APT group that has a penchant for targeting telecommunications companies, has been spotted trying to sneak into yet another one. The intrusion … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/20/salt-typhoon-apt-telecommunications-europe/
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Suspected Chinese Hackers Spent a Year-Plus Inside F5 Systems: Report
The suspected Chinese-backed threat actors that hacked into F5’s systems and stole data from the security vendor’s BIG-IP application suite spent more than a year inside the networks dtbefore being in detected in August, according to a Bloomberg report that cited unnamed sources familiar with the investigation. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/10/suspected-chinese-hackers-spent-a-year-plus-inside-f5-systems-report/
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Suspected Chinese Hackers Spent a Year-Plus Inside F5 Systems: Report
The suspected Chinese-backed threat actors that hacked into F5’s systems and stole data from the security vendor’s BIG-IP application suite spent more than a year inside the networks dtbefore being in detected in August, according to a Bloomberg report that cited unnamed sources familiar with the investigation. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/10/suspected-chinese-hackers-spent-a-year-plus-inside-f5-systems-report/
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Salt Typhoon Uses Citrix Flaw in Global Cyber-Attack
A cyber intrusion by China-linked group Salt Typhoon has been observed targeting global infrastructure via DLL sideloading First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/salt-typhoon-citrix-flaw-cyber/
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China wirft den USA Cyberangriffe auf Zeitbehörde vor
China und USA werfen sich gegenseitig immer wieder Cyberangriffe vor.China hat den USA Cyberangriffe auf eine zentrale staatliche Zeitbehörde vorgeworfen. Nach Angaben des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit soll die US-Nachrichtendienstbehörde NSA seit März 2022 das Nationale Zeitdienstzentrum in Xi’an angegriffen haben.Die Angriffe hätten über Sicherheitslücken in den Handys von Mitarbeitern begonnen, später seien auch Computer im…
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China wirft den USA Cyberangriffe auf Zeitbehörde vor
China und USA werfen sich gegenseitig immer wieder Cyberangriffe vor.China hat den USA Cyberangriffe auf eine zentrale staatliche Zeitbehörde vorgeworfen. Nach Angaben des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit soll die US-Nachrichtendienstbehörde NSA seit März 2022 das Nationale Zeitdienstzentrum in Xi’an angegriffen haben.Die Angriffe hätten über Sicherheitslücken in den Handys von Mitarbeitern begonnen, später seien auch Computer im…
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Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
Tags: access, attack, authentication, breach, china, control, corporate, cve, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, exploit, flaw, framework, government, group, hacker, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Intruder, korea, microsoft, monitoring, network, ransomware, reverse-engineering, risk, russia, supply-chain, tactics, technology, theft, threat, vulnerability, zero-day, zero-trustChina or Russia? Conflicting attribution: Microsoft attributed the broader wave of SharePoint exploitations to three Chinese-linked groups: Linen Typhoon, Violet Typhoon, and a third actor it tracks as Storm-2603. The company said the attackers were preparing to deploy Warlock ransomware across affected systems.However, the source familiar with the Kansas City incident tells CSO that a…
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MSS Claims NSA Used 42 Cyber Tools in Multi-Stage Attack on Beijing Time Systems
China on Sunday accused the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) of carrying out a “premeditated” cyber attack targeting the National Time Service Center (NTSC), as it described the U.S. as a “hacker empire” and the “greatest source of chaos in cyberspace.”The Ministry of State Security (MSS), in a WeChat post, said it uncovered “irrefutable evidence”…
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China finds “irrefutable evidence” of US NSA cyberattacks on time Authority
China claims the US NSA hacked its National Time Service Center by exploiting staff phone flaws since March 2022, stealing sensitive data. China’s Ministry of State Security announced it has found “irrefutable evidence” that the US National Security Agency (NSA) conducted cyberattacks on its National Time Service Center, reports Bloomberg. The China National Time Service…
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China finds “irrefutable evidence” of US NSA cyberattacks on time Authority
China claims the US NSA hacked its National Time Service Center by exploiting staff phone flaws since March 2022, stealing sensitive data. China’s Ministry of State Security announced it has found “irrefutable evidence” that the US National Security Agency (NSA) conducted cyberattacks on its National Time Service Center, reports Bloomberg. The China National Time Service…
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Geheimdienstkrieg: China wirft NSA massive Cyberangriffe auf Zeitdienst vor
China beschuldigt die NSA gezielter Attacken auf kritische Infrastruktur. Seit 2022 soll die NSA das nationale Zeitdienstzentrum ausgespäht haben. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/geheimdienstkrieg-china-wirft-nsa-massive-cyberangriffe-auf-zeitdienst-vor-2510-201319.html
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Winos 4.0 hackers expand to Japan and Malaysia with new malware
Winos 4.0 hackers expand from China, Taiwan to Japan, Malaysia using fake Finance Ministry PDFs to spread HoldingHands RAT malware. Threat actors behind Winos 4.0 (ValleyRAT) have expanded their attacks from China and Taiwan to Japan and Malaysia, using PDFs disguised as documents from the Finance Ministry to deliver malware. Attackers employed another remote access…
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Silver Fox Expands Winos 4.0 Attacks to Japan and Malaysia via HoldingHands RAT
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).”The campaign relied on phishing emails with PDFs that contained embedded malicious links,” Pei Han Liao, researcher…
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Government considered destroying its data hub after decade-long intrusion
Tags: access, backdoor, breach, china, data, detection, endpoint, exploit, government, group, Hardware, incident response, infrastructure, network, risk, spy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vpn, vulnerabilityBridewell, a supplier to the UK government critical network infrastructure, endorsed the severity of this approach. He said, “it’s like when a device is compromised, the only way to truly be sure there are no remnants, or unidentified backdoors is to restore the asset to a known good state. In the physical realm, in particular…
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US Scrambles to Patch F5 Amid China-Linked Breach
Concerns Grow Over F5 Hacking Amid Stalled Government Shutdown. Federal officials are scrambling to contain nation-state hackers exploiting stolen source code from networking devices and software maker F5 amid staffing pressures created by the ongoing government shutdown. Stolen files reportedly include undisclosed vulnerabilities F5 had been researching. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/us-scrambles-to-patch-f5-amid-china-linked-breach-a-29759
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Cross-Border Phishing Attacks Spreads Across Asia
Attacks Move From China to Malaysia Using Phishing PDFs. Seemingly unrelated attacks targeting Chinese-speakers throughout the Asia-Pacific region with a remote access trojan trace back to the same threat actor, says researchers. Hackers’ most likely motivation is regional intelligence collection. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/cross-border-phishing-attacks-spreads-across-asia-a-29758
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: F5 Breach Prompts Urgent U.S. Gov’t Warning, as OpenAI Details Disrupted ChatGPT Abuses
Tags: ai, attack, awareness, backdoor, breach, business, chatgpt, china, cisa, cloud, control, corporate, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, exploit, framework, fraud, governance, government, group, hacker, incident, infrastructure, Internet, iran, law, LLM, malicious, malware, mitigation, monitoring, network, openai, organized, phishing, privacy, resilience, risk, russia, scam, security-incident, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, training, update, vulnerabilityF5’s breach triggers a CISA emergency directive, as Tenable calls it “a five-alarm fire” that requires urgent action. Meanwhile, OpenAI details how attackers try to misuse ChatGPT. Plus, boards are increasing AI and cyber disclosures. And much more! Key takeaways A critical breach at cybersecurity firm F5, attributed to a nation-state, has triggered an urgent…
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Carmakers fear chip crunch as Dutch sanctions hit Nexperia
Tags: chinaBeijing blocks exports after Netherlands imposes special measures on Chinese-owned chipmaker First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/17/car_industry_nexperia_supply/
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Carmakers fear chip crunch as Dutch sanctions hit Nexperia
Tags: chinaBeijing blocks exports after Netherlands imposes special measures on Chinese-owned chipmaker First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/17/car_industry_nexperia_supply/
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Deutschland größtes Hacker-Ziel in der EU
Tags: authentication, china, cyberattack, defense, extortion, germany, hacker, iran, login, mail, mfa, microsoft, north-korea, password, phishing, ransomware, software, ukraineLaut einer Studie von Microsoft richteten sich 3,3 Prozent aller Cyberangriffe weltweit im ersten Halbjahr 2025 gegen Ziele in Deutschland.Kein Land in der Europäischen Union steht so sehr im Fokus von kriminellen Hackern wie Deutschland. Das geht aus dem Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025 hervor, den der Software-Konzern in Redmond veröffentlicht hat. Danach richteten sich…
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Breach Roundup: Chinese Hackers Exploited ArcGIS
Also, Internet-Exposed Call Center Software Under Attack and Patch Tuesday. This week: Chinese hackers exploited ArcGIS, Internet-exposed call center software under attack, October patch Tuesday, Massachusetts student sentenced for $3 million extortion hack, New York fined eight insurers $14.2M over data breaches, more than 100 VS Code extensions leak secrets. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Weak and Exposed: US Water Utilities a Chinese Hacker Target
Critical Infrastructure on the Digital Front Lines. Rural America is a long way from Taiwan. But cyber power is no respecter of geography. Should China make good on its repeated threats to reunify the island by force, the utilities that provide water and power to small towns all over the United States may find themselves…
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China Hackers Test AI-Optimized Attack Chains in Taiwan
AI might help some threat actors in certain respects, but one group is proving that its use for cyberattacks has its limits. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/china-hackers-ai-optimized-attack-taiwan
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Chinese cyberspies snoop on Russian IT biz in rare east-on-east attack
Who needs enemies when you have friends like Xi? First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/chinese_russian_cyber_espionage/