Tag: espionage
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China-Linked Hackers Target Asian Governments, NATO State, Journalists, and Activists
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new China-aligned espionage campaign targeting government and defense sectors across South, East, and Southeast Asia, along with one European government belonging to NATO.Trend Micro has attributed the activity to a threat activity cluster it tracks under the temporary designation SHADOW-EARTH-053. The adversarial collective is assessed to First seen…
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Cyber spies target Russian aviation firms to steal satellite and GPS data
A cyber-espionage group has been targeting Russian government agencies and companies in the aviation industry to steal sensitive geospatial data. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/russia-cyber-espionage-aviation
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The Overlap of Cybersecurity and Financial Risk: Protecting Sensitive Data in Commodity Markets
Cybersecurity financial risk is rising in commodity markets as breaches, data loss and espionage threaten operations and investor trust. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/05/the-overlap-of-cybersecurity-and-financial-risk-protecting-sensitive-data-in-commodity-markets/
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China-Aligned Hackers Deploy ShadowPad in Multi-Stage Espionage Campaign
Tags: china, cyber, espionage, exploit, government, group, hacker, infrastructure, microsoft, threat, vulnerabilityChina-aligned threat actors tracked as SHADOW-EARTH-053 are exploiting old but unpatched Microsoft Exchange and IIS vulnerabilities to run a stealthy, multi-stage espionage campaign across Asian governments, critical infrastructure, and one NATO member state. The group primarily targets government entities and critical infrastructure in South, East, and Southeast Asia, with additional activity against at least one…
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Researchers unearth industrial sabotage malware that predated Stuxnet by 5 years
fast16.sys, is briefly mentioned in the 2017 Shadow Brokers leak of documents covering exploits and tools used by US National Security Agency cyber teams.”This 2005 attack is a harbinger for sabotage operations targeting ultra expensive high-precision computing workloads of national importance like advanced physics, cryptographic, and nuclear research workloads,” the SentinelOne researchers said in their…
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Signal Phishing Campaign Targets German Officials in Suspected Russian Operation
Suspected Russian phishing via Signal targeted German officials, exploiting trust to access accounts and sensitive political communications. A new wave of cyber operations targeting European political leadership is once again highlighting how modern espionage increasingly relies on deception rather than technical exploits. Recent investigations by German authorities point to a large-scale phishing campaign conducted via…
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Signal Phishing Campaign Targets German Officials in Suspected Russian Operation
Suspected Russian phishing via Signal targeted German officials, exploiting trust to access accounts and sensitive political communications. A new wave of cyber operations targeting European political leadership is once again highlighting how modern espionage increasingly relies on deception rather than technical exploits. Recent investigations by German authorities point to a large-scale phishing campaign conducted via…
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Signal Phishing Campaign Targets German Officials in Suspected Russian Operation
Suspected Russian phishing via Signal targeted German officials, exploiting trust to access accounts and sensitive political communications. A new wave of cyber operations targeting European political leadership is once again highlighting how modern espionage increasingly relies on deception rather than technical exploits. Recent investigations by German authorities point to a large-scale phishing campaign conducted via…
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Signal Phishing Campaign Targets German Officials in Suspected Russian Operation
Suspected Russian phishing via Signal targeted German officials, exploiting trust to access accounts and sensitive political communications. A new wave of cyber operations targeting European political leadership is once again highlighting how modern espionage increasingly relies on deception rather than technical exploits. Recent investigations by German authorities point to a large-scale phishing campaign conducted via…
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Alleged Chinese hacker extradited to US over cyberattacks targeting COVID-19 research
Chinese national Xu Zewei was extradited from Italy to the United States to face charges tied to an alleged cyber espionage campaign that breached thousands of computers … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/28/chinese-national-cyber-espionage-charges/
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Chinese National Extradited Over Silk Typhoon Cyber Campaign
Extradition links alleged MSS-directed hacker to Silk Typhoon and COVID-19 espionage First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/chinese-national-extradited-silk/
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Chinese National Extradited Over Silk Typhoon Cyber Campaign
Extradition links alleged MSS-directed hacker to Silk Typhoon and COVID-19 espionage First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/chinese-national-extradited-silk/
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Chinese national extradited to US for pandemic-era Silk Typhoon attacks
Xu Zewei was allegedly directed by China’s intelligence services to conduct a sweeping espionage campaign to steal data on COVID-19 research and other U.S. policy interests. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/xu-zewei-extradited-china-national-silk-typhoon-hafnium/
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LINKEDIN BROWSERGATE
BrowserGate claims LinkedIn secretly fingerprints users via extensions and device data, sending encrypted results to third parties for tracking. BrowserGate is an investigation conducted by Fairlinked (browsergate.eu/), an association of commercial LinkedIn users, which documents what it describes as one of the largest data breach and corporate espionage scandals in digital history. The central thesis:…
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LINKEDIN BROWSERGATE
BrowserGate claims LinkedIn secretly fingerprints users via extensions and device data, sending encrypted results to third parties for tracking. BrowserGate is an investigation conducted by Fairlinked (browsergate.eu/), an association of commercial LinkedIn users, which documents what it describes as one of the largest data breach and corporate espionage scandals in digital history. The central thesis:…
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China-Backed Groups are Using Massive Botnets in Espionage, Intrusion Campaigns
China-sponsored threat groups like Salt Typhoon and Flax Typhoon are increasingly relying on multiple massive botnets comprising edge and IoT devices to run their cyber espionage and network intrusion campaigns, CISA and other security agencies say. The use of such “covert networks” makes it more difficult to detect and mitigate their campaigns. First seen on…
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Italy moves to extradite Chinese national to the U.S. over hacking charges
Italy plans to extradite Xu Zewei to the U.S. over alleged hacks on COVID-19 research tied to state-backed operations. Italy is moving to extradite Xu Zewei, the Chinese national arrested in 2025 at the request of U.S. authorities on cyber-espionage charges, Bloomberg reported. The case stands out because it ties a single suspect, Xu, to…
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Compromised everyday devices power Chinese cyber espionage operations
China-linked threat actors have shifted from individually procured infrastructure to large-scale covert networks, botnets built from compromised routers and other edge … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/24/ncsc-china-covert-networks-advisory/
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Chinese hackers using everyday devices to target UK firms, warns cybersecurity agency
Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre says companies must step up vigilance to prevent espionage attacks<ul><li><a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/apr/23/uk-government-borrowing–oil-100-a-barrel-strait-of-hormuz-deadlock-growth-latest-updates”>Business live latest updates</li></ul>British businesses are being urged to step up their vigilance against a China-linked hacking ploy that uses everyday devices for espionage.The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and agencies in nine other countries have warned of persistent…
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Chinese hackers are using everyday devices to hack UK firms, warns watchdog
Britain’s cybersecurity agency says companies must step up vigilance to prevent espionage attacks<ul><li><a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/apr/23/uk-government-borrowing–oil-100-a-barrel-strait-of-hormuz-deadlock-growth-latest-updates”>Business live latest updates</li></ul>British businesses are being urged to step up their vigilance against a China-linked hacking ploy that uses everyday devices for espionage.The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and agencies in nine other countries have warned of persistent attempts by…
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Chinese hackers are using everyday devices to hack UK firms, warns watchdog
Britain’s cybersecurity agency says companies must step up vigilance to prevent espionage attacks<ul><li><a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/apr/23/uk-government-borrowing–oil-100-a-barrel-strait-of-hormuz-deadlock-growth-latest-updates”>Business live latest updates</li></ul>British businesses are being urged to step up their vigilance against a China-linked hacking ploy that uses everyday devices for espionage.The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and agencies in nine other countries have warned of persistent attempts by…
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If cyber espionage via HDMI worries you, NCSC built a device to stop it
A new cybersecurity device developed by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) should be a helpful solution for protecting governments and businesses from malicious … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/23/ncsc-silentglass-cybersecurity-tool-hdmi-displayport/
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Outlook Mailboxes Abused to Conceal Linux GoGra Backdoor Traffic
The Harvester APT group has quietly expanded its espionage arsenal with a new Linux variant of its GoGra backdoor, one that cleverly hides its command-and-control (C2) traffic within Microsoft Outlook mailboxes, making it significantly harder to detect with traditional network defenses. Researchers from Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team discovered the malware. They linked…
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Outlook Mailboxes Used to Conceal Linux GoGra Backdoor Traffic
A newly discovered Linux variant of the GoGra backdoor is being used by the Harvester advanced persistent threat (APT) group to conduct stealthy cyber espionage operations. Harvester, a suspected nation-state-backed group active since at least 2021, is known for targeting South Asia with custom malware and espionage campaigns. The discovery of a Linux version of…
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Mustang Panda’s New LOTUSLITE Variant Targets India Banks, South Korea Policy Circles
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of a known malware called LOTUSLITE that’s distributed via a theme related to India’s banking sector.”The backdoor communicates with a dynamic DNS-based command-and-control server over HTTPS and supports remote shell access, file operations, and session management, indicating a continued espionage-focused capability set rather than First seen on thehackernews.com…
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Hackers Tie Iranian Espionage to CastleRAT and ChainShell
A direct operational link between Iran’s MuddyWater espionage group and the Russian TAG-150 CastleRAT malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform, showing how state and criminal ecosystems are now tightly intertwined. Investigators recovered 15 malware samples, including at least two CastleRAT “builds” and a PowerShell script named reset.ps1 that deploys a previously undocumented JavaScript/Node.js agent dubbed ChainShell. On this server, two native…
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Microsoft-Signed Binary Helps Deliver LOTUSLITE in India Spy Campaign
Microsoft-signed developer tooling is being abused to quietly deploy a new LOTUSLITE backdoor variant against India’s banking sector, in what researchers link to the China”‘nexus Mustang Panda espionage cluster with moderate confidence. The backdoor retains its espionage profile, offering remote shell access, file operations, and session management rather than any obvious monetization features. Communications are…
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Pentagon Cyber Leaders Back $1.5T Budget Request
Overhaul, Restructuring Puts Cyber at Core of Digital Warfare. Defense officials told House lawmakers the newly-released budget request positions cyber as a core warfighting domain, funding expanded offensive operations, AI-driven capabilities and a major Cyber Command overhaul as adversaries shift from espionage to pre-positioned disruptive attacks. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/pentagon-cyber-leaders-back-15t-budget-request-a-31476
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The thin gray line: Handala, CyberAv3ngers and Iran’s proxy ops
A state of perpetual interference: To understand how proxy insurgent groups such as Handala fit within Iran’s modern-day intelligence ecosystem, we first need to look at the historical development of the country’s intelligence operations.In 1953, the United States and Britain (via conduit operations of the CIA and MI6, respectively) instigated a coup in Iran that…
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Ukrainian emergency services and hospitals hit by espionage campaign using new AgingFly malware
Hackers have targeted Ukrainian hospitals and local government bodies in a new espionage campaign using a malware tool dubbed AgingFly, researchers say. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/aging-fly-espionage-campaign-targets-ukraine-emergency-services