Tag: china
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CISA Urges OT Resilience in Dark Remarks About Cyberattacks
Tags: banking, china, cisa, cyber, cyberattack, defense, infrastructure, Internet, military, resilience, russia, serviceVital Service Providers Need a Plan to Work Through Internet Outages, CISA Says. Critical U.S. infrastructure like water, power and even banking systems will be successfully hacked by enemy cyber warriors in the event of a military confrontation with a peer adversary like Russia or China, officials from the nation’s civilian cyber defense agency said.…
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CISA Urges OT Resilience in Dark Remarks About Cyberattacks
Tags: banking, china, cisa, cyber, cyberattack, defense, infrastructure, Internet, military, resilience, russia, serviceVital Service Providers Need a Plan to Work Through Internet Outages, CISA Says. Critical U.S. infrastructure like water, power and even banking systems will be successfully hacked by enemy cyber warriors in the event of a military confrontation with a peer adversary like Russia or China, officials from the nation’s civilian cyber defense agency said.…
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Modified OpenSSH Binaries Let Velvet Ant Steal Passwords, Log Commands, and Hide Activity
A long-running, stealthy campaign attributed to the China-nexus actor tracked as Velvet Ant has been found to include deeply engineered backdoors in the authentication stack: modified OpenSSH binaries and tampered PAM modules that exfiltrate credentials, record every executed command, and conceal attacker activity. The discovery, part of Sygnia’s Operation Highland investigation, reveals nearly a decade…
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UK critical infrastructure hit by 200 cyber incidents in a year, agency says
Head of National Cyber Security Centre says UK in ‘ongoing contest with capable adversaries’ and AI could add to threatThe UK’s critical national infrastructure has been hit by more than 200 cyber incidents over the past year and state-linked assailants were behind three-quarters of the attacks, according to the state cybersecurity body.Richard Horne, the chief…
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UK critical infrastructure hit by 200 cyber incidents in a year, agency says
Head of National Cyber Security Centre says UK in ‘ongoing contest with capable adversaries’ and AI could add to threatThe UK’s critical national infrastructure has been hit by more than 200 cyber incidents over the past year and state-linked assailants were behind three-quarters of the attacks, according to the state cybersecurity body.Richard Horne, the chief…
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China-Linked FishMonger Ports SprySOCKS to Windows With Kernel-Level Stealth and UEFI Bootkit Hints
China-linked FishMonger used two SprySOCKS Windows variants that leveraged kernel drivers and the Print Spooler to target governments in four countries. ESET researchers have found two previously undocumented Windows versions of SprySOCKS, a backdoor that the security community had until now treated as Linux-only. Trend Micro first documented the Linux variant in September 2023 and…
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Steam Workshop Malware Campaign Uses Wallpaper Engine to Steal Accounts and Infect Gamers
A sophisticated malware campaign has been abusing Steam Workshop’s sharing model to distribute backdoors, infostealers and crypto miners hidden inside Wallpaper Engine packages, primarily targeting gamers in China and Russia. The campaign exploits Wallpaper Engine’s “application” wallpaper type essentially standalone executables that run as animated desktop backgrounds to execute arbitrary code the moment a user…
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Chinese Espionage Actor Abuses Email Rules to Steal Research Data
Tags: china, compliance, credentials, data, email, espionage, google, group, intelligence, malware, threatThreat Actor Silently Forwarded Sensitive Emails Matching Strategic Topics. Google says Chinese espionage group UNC6508 compromised REDCap environments at North American research institutions, deployed custom malware, stole credentials and covertly forwarded strategically relevant emails through abused compliance rules to support long-term intelligence collection. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/chinese-espionage-actor-abuses-email-rules-to-steal-research-data-a-31993
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Restore Fable and Mythos Access, Cybersecurity Leaders Urge
Experts Say White House Export Ban Risks Adoption Boost for China’s AI Alternatives. New export controls on artificial intelligence startup Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos large language models, over their vulnerability-discovery capabilities, must be lifted, not least because Chinese models will soon offer equal capabilities, cybersecurity experts warned the Trump administration. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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SprySOCKS Windows Variant Abuses Kernel Drivers to Evade Detection
FishMonger, a China-nexus threat group, has deployed an undocumented version of the Linux backdoor against government targets in Honduras, Taiwan, Thailand, and Pakistan. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/sprysocks-windows-variant-kernel-drivers
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SprySOCKS Backdoor Expands From Linux to Windows
China-linked SprySOCKS backdoor gains stealthy Windows variants and 30-plus C2 commands First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/sprysocks-backdoor-windows/
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China-Nexus Actor Spies on US Researchers Undetected for a Year
Google discovered and disrupted the sprawling campaign, which stole RedCAP credentials to breach numerous institutions and exfiltrate sensitive data. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/china-nexus-actor-us-researchers-undetected
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China-Linked SprySOCKS Backdoor Expands to Windows with Driver-Based Stealth
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two previously undocumented Windows variants of what was believed to be a Linux-only backdoor called SprySOCKS.”The Windows variants discovered are internally marked as WIN_DRV and WIN_PLUS,” ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker News. “Both come with a hard-coded C&C [command-and-control] configuration and support communication over TCP, UDP, First…
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Chinese Hacking Firm Upgrades With New Windows Backdoor
Researchers Identified Two Undocumented Variants Used Since 2023. Eset uncovered two previously undocumented Windows variants of the China-linked SprySocks backdoor tied to FishMonger and iSoon, revealing expanded espionage capabilities, rootkit-based stealth and continued targeting of government organizations across Asia and Central America. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/chinese-hacking-firm-upgrades-new-windows-backdoor-a-31977
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China-linked actor spent two years inside medical research networks
Tags: china, credentials, cyberespionage, email, google, group, intelligence, military, network, threatChina’s UNC6508 hid in North American medical research networks for 2 years, stealing credentials and forwarding emails to Gmail Google’s Threat Intelligence Group published a report this week on UNC6508, a China-linked cyberespionage group that breached North American medical and military research organizations and stayed hidden for more than two years. The earliest confirmed intrusion…
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Russian and Chinese Actors Use AI Translation and Visual Content in Malign Influence Operations
AI is reshaping foreign malign influence operations in subtle but consequential ways. Our analysis of pro-Russia and pro-China inauthentic accounts on X across 20242026 shows actors are not leveraging AI primarily to flood platforms with volume. Instead, they are using AI to refine content quality, create more believable personas, and broaden linguistic and visual reach…
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PRC-Nexus Hackers Abuse REDCap Servers to Monitor US Medical Research Organizations
A sophisticated, long-running cyberespionage campaign attributed to UNC6508, a People’s Republic of China (PRC)-nexus threat actor, that systematically targets North American academic, medical, and military research institutions. The campaign, active since at least September 2023, remained undetected for over a year while the threat actor silently harvested credentials, exfiltrated sensitive communications, and maintained persistent access across victim…
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China-linked group uses InfiniteRed malware to target medical research institutions
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/china-linked-group-uses-infinitered-malware-to-target-medical-research-institutions
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Chinese Hackers Abused Google Workspace Rules to Steal Research and Defense Emails
A China-linked espionage group hid inside North American medical, academic, and military research networks for more than a year, quietly stealing sensitive research and defense email.The way in was a backdoor on their REDCap research servers that stole login credentials. The exfiltration was the unusual part: the attackers rewired the victims’ own Google Workspace rules…
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Google exposes China espionage group that’s been lurking in networks undetected since 2023
The revelation mirrors an alarming pattern of Chinese espionage groups dropping backdoors into critical infrastructure to intercept research and steal data with national security implications. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/google-unc6508-china-espionage-threat/
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Chinese hackers breached North American research institutions via REDCap servers
A China-linked cyber espionage operation targeted North American medical research institutions through compromised REDCap servers, using custom malware to gain persistent … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/15/chinese-hackers-redcap-medical-research-institutions-breach/
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China-Nexus Actor Spy on US Researchers Undetected for a Year
Google discovered and disrupted the sprawling campaign, which stole RedCAP credentials to target numerous institutions and exfiltrate sensitive data. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/china-nexus-actor-us-researchers-undetected
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China-nexus group linked to multiyear campaign targeting US, Canadian medical research
A report from Google links a sophisticated espionage effort targeting information about viruses, AI and military information. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/china-nexus-multiyear-hacking-us-canadian-medical-research/822912/
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China-Nexus Actor Spied on US Researchers Undetected for a Year
Google discovered and disrupted the sprawling campaign, which stole RedCAP credentials to target numerous institutions and exfiltrate sensitive data. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/china-nexus-actor-us-researchers-undetected
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China-linked spies backdoored authentication stack to stay hidden for years
A China-linked cyber espionage group known as Velvet Ant spent nearly a decade inside the internal network of an unnamed organization without being detected, according to the … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/15/velvet-ant-backdoored-authentication-persistence/
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Chinese hackers breach REDCap servers, steal medical research
A China-linked espionage campaign targeted exposed REDCap servers to deploy the InfiniteRed malware and steal sensitive data from a medical institution in North America. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-hackers-breach-redcap-servers-steal-medical-research/
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Velvet Ant Hackers Backdoor OpenSSH and PAM to Spy on Critical Infrastructure Network
Tags: access, authentication, backdoor, china, cyber, hacker, infrastructure, Internet, network, spyA long-running, highly disciplined intrusion attributed to the China-nexus actor known as Velvet Ant has been revealed as a near-decade campaign of silent access that culminated in the replacement of core authentication components OpenSSH binaries and PAM modules across a segregated critical-infrastructure network. The intrusion chain began with compromises of internet-facing systems where the operator…
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FBI disrupts massive AI-powered phishing service using a million URLs
In a coordinated effort, the FBI, working with Google and Black Lotus Labs, has dismantled a massive Chinese phishing-as-a-service operation called Outsider Enterprise with thousands of phishing websites used to steal credit card data and passwords. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-disrupts-massive-ai-powered-phishing-service-using-a-million-urls/
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Chinese hackers hijack auth flow, spy on isolated network for a decade
Chinese hackers took control of a target organization’s authentication stack and maintained persistence for 10 years, with full visibility into the administrative activity. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-hackers-hijack-auth-flow-spy-on-isolated-network-for-a-decade/