Tag: china
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OFAC Sanctions Chinese Scam Platform Xinbi Guarantee
The US Treasury has placed sanctions on notorious Chinese cybercrime marketplace Xinbi Guarantee First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ofac-sanctions-chinese-scam/
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China-Linked Hackers Exploit Chrome and Windows Zero-Days in BlueMoon Attacks
Researcher has discovered a rapidly spreading exploit kit called BlueMoon, which combines vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser with a Windows kernel privilege-escalation flaw to compromise targets in espionage campaigns. This activity was first observed on August 28, 2026, and at least four threat clusters have adopted it, most of which are suspected to have ties…
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Chinese espionage groups swarm to exploit triple-link chain of zero-days
Multiple China-aligned threat groups exploited the defects quickly to target various organizations. Proofpoint said the activity is ongoing and expects it to widen. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/china-espionage-groups-exploit-chain-zero-days/
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Chinese espionage groups swarm to exploit triple-link chain of zero-days
Multiple China-aligned threat groups exploited the defects quickly to target various organizations. Proofpoint said the activity is ongoing and expects it to widen. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/china-espionage-groups-exploit-chain-zero-days/
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Chinese espionage groups swarm to exploit triple-link chain of zero-days
Multiple China-aligned threat groups exploited the defects quickly to target various organizations. Proofpoint said the activity is ongoing and expects it to widen. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/china-espionage-groups-exploit-chain-zero-days/
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US Government Accuses Chinese AI Firms of Distilling Frontier Models
US agencies claim Chinese companies covertly extracted billions of tokens from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and SpaceX’s Grok to reduce development costs. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/us-government-chinese-ai-firms-distilling-frontier-models
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US Agencies Warn Chinese AI Firms Are Extracting Advanced AI Models
US agencies accuse six Chinese AI firms of extracting billions of tokens from US AI models to accelerate development and copy advanced capabilities. NSA, CISA, and the FBI jointly published an advisory accusing six Chinese AI companies, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI, of running industrial-scale extraction campaigns against US frontier models since…
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U.S. Disrupts Xinbi Guarantee Scam Marketplace, Freezes $52.8 Million in Crypto
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced coordinated actions aimed at an illicit online marketplace called Xinbi Guarantee that offered scam services, including seizing Telegram channels used to run the service, confiscating two cryptocurrency wallets, and deploying the Scam Center Strike Force to Madagascar to help disrupt 13 scam compounds run by Chinese…
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Four Spy Groups Used the Same Chrome and Windows Exploit Kit Within a Week
Multiple espionage-motivated threat activity clusters have been found deploying a previously undocumented exploit kit called BlueMoon that chains together multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Google Chrome.The first in-the-wild use of BlueMoon has been attributed to the China-aligned state-sponsored group tracked as APT31 (aka Bronze Vinewood, Judgement Panda, JungleBamboo, First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to…
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Multiple Chinese hacking groups seen using identical Chrome zero-day exploit
A Google Chrome bug identified in August was exploited by at least four China-linked cyber-espionage groups, according to researchers. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/china-hackers-chrome-browser-zero-day-multiple-groups
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Google Finds Chinese Hackers Running AI on Compromised Networks
Google says China-linked hackers are running AI inside compromised cloud environments, using victims’ computing power while reducing outside monitoring. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/news/news-chinese-hackers-ai-compromised-clouds/
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US says Chinese firms extracted billions of tokens from frontier AI models
U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies say that six Chinese AI companies conducted industrial-scale distillation attacks on American frontier AI models since at least late 2024. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-says-chinese-firms-extracted-billions-of-tokens-from-frontier-ai-models/
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White House Acts to Shut Out China From US Bulk Power Market
Trump Executive Order Declares National Emergency, Citing Potential Backdoors. A broad Trump administration plan to shut adversary nations, including China, out of the equipment supply chain for the U.S. bulk electric power market has left the industry in regulatory uncertainty, just as demand for electricity is spiking nationwide due the ballooning power demands of data…
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White House Acts to Shut Out China From US Bulk Power Market
Trump Executive Order Declares National Emergency, Citing Potential Backdoors. A broad Trump administration plan to shut adversary nations, including China, out of the equipment supply chain for the U.S. bulk electric power market has left the industry in regulatory uncertainty, just as demand for electricity is spiking nationwide due the ballooning power demands of data…
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White House Acts to Shut Out China From US Bulk Power Market
Trump Executive Order Declares National Emergency, Citing Potential Backdoors. A broad Trump administration plan to shut adversary nations, including China, out of the equipment supply chain for the U.S. bulk electric power market has left the industry in regulatory uncertainty, just as demand for electricity is spiking nationwide due the ballooning power demands of data…
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Chinese Hackers Use AI Agents in Multi-Country Cyber Campaign
Tags: ai, china, country, cyber, cyberattack, cyberespionage, government, hacker, intelligence, threatHunt.io uncovered a Chinese-speaking campaign using AI agents to automate cyberattacks against Asian government, education and industrial targets. Threat intelligence firm Hunt.io just documented a second, separate China-linked campaign wiring commercial AI models directly into live cyberespionage operations, this time hitting Taiwan’s Kuomintang Party archives, Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, government and education systems in…
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Chinese-Speaking Hackers Use Claude, Qwen and DeepSeek AI Agents to Attack Government Systems
Chinese-speaking threat operators have been observed using Claude, Qwen and DeepSeek-powered AI agents as operational components in a second intrusion campaign targeting government, political, education and industrial organizations across Asia. The campaign is distinct from an earlier operation reported in July that used Claude Code and DeepSeek against government and financial-sector targets. In this newer…
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Earth Berberoka-Linked Hackers Target Brazil With Linux Malware and SEO Poisoning
A Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster linked to the Earth Berberoka threat actor has compromised Brazilian government and educational web servers to conduct large-scale SEO poisoning and online-gambling fraud. The operation has been active since mid-2025 and represents a notable shift in Brazil’s threat landscape. Rather than deploying the country’s more familiar banking malware, the attackers are…
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Fake Software Installers Disable Windows Update and Weaken Microsoft Defender
An active malware campaign is using bogus software-download websites to impersonate trusted vendors and distribute malicious installers.”The campaign has targeted users looking to download popular software and has resulted in compromises across multiple organizations and industries, primarily affecting China-based operations of multinational organizations and Chinese-speaking users,” Microsoft First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article: thehackernews.com/2026/09/fake-software-installers-disable.html
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Malicious Apache Modules Hijack Brazilian Government Site Traffic to Push Betting Pages
A Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster known as Gambling Goblin has been observed installing malicious Apache modules on compromised web servers run by Brazilian government and educational institutions, and using them to divert visitors to attacker-controlled pages promoting online gambling and sports betting.Check Point Research said it has tracked the campaign since mid-2025.The modules First seen on…
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Gaming the system: how a Chinese-speaking actor turned Brazilian government sites into an SEO weapon
ey Points Introduction Since mid-2025, Check Point Research has tracked a sustained campaign against Brazilian organizations. The tradecraft points to a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group connected to Earth Berberoka, an actor firstdocumentedtargeting gambling sites across Asia. Once inside a victim, the group deploys a broad Linux toolkit: a custom downloader, several backdoors, and familiar offensive utilities.…
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China-linked campaign targets high-value networks, critical infrastructure
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/news/fire-ant-campaign-targets-high-value-networks-and-critical-infrastructure
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Suspected Chinese actor targets Philippine nuclear and naval entities using known vulnerabilities
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/suspected-chinese-actor-targets-philippine-nuclear-and-naval-entities-using-known-vulnerabilities
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China’s ‘Fire Ant’ campaign used compromised Cisco routers as platform for more attacks
A hacking operation dubbed Fire Ant “didn’t just compromise systems,” according to researchers. “It compromised the trust layer those systems depend on.” First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/router-hacks-fire-ant-group-china
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China-Linked Hackers Turn Cisco Routers Into Covert Network Gateways
China-linked Fire Ant hackers compromised Cisco IOS XR routers, management hosts, and authentication systems to create covert paths into other networks. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/news-fire-ant-hackers-cisco-ios-xr-routers/
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Fire Ant Hackers Compromise Cisco Routers and TACACS Servers to Target Critical Infrastructure
China-nexus threat actor Fire Ant has expanded its espionage operations from VMware hypervisors to the trusted infrastructure layer, compromising Cisco IOS XR routers, TACACS authentication servers, and Linux management hosts. Security firm Sygnia, which investigated the activity, said Fire Ant has remained active since it was first reported in 2025. The actor’s latest operations show…
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Chinese Spy Proxy, AI Agents Go Off-Task, Router Backdoors and More
The boring parts caused most of the trouble.A router shipped ready to listen. A fake check turned the user into the installer. Trusted systems collected traffic and passwords, then cleaned the logs. Old bugs formed new attack chains. Even an AI agent decided its assigned task was optional.Elsewhere, fake apps, helpful support calls, cheap banking…
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Chinese Fire Ant hackers turn Cisco routers into spying platforms
The researchers discovered Fire Ant’s new tactic after finding an active GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) tunnel interface on a Cisco IOS XR router that could not be explained by a running configuration or commit history. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-fire-ant-hackers-turn-cisco-routers-into-spying-platforms/
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ValleyRAT Backdoor Hides in Signed Adware That Users Add to Antivirus Exclusions
The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese adware application, running the malware under a trusted process to slip past users who add such software to their antivirus exclusions.Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said the attackers built the disguise around QN Wallpaper, a genuine Chinese…
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China-linked Fire Ant Hides Inside Trusted Infrastructure
Fire Ant hijacked Cisco routers, stole credentials and altered logs to hide its tracks, using trusted infrastructure to reach high-value networks. Chinese-linked cyber espionage group Fire Ant has spent the past year quietly graduating from hacking individual computers to hacking the infrastructure that connects them. Sygnia’s new report traces how the group expanded from compromising…