Collaborate Disseminate
To surveil security conscious politicians and dissidents, hackers linked to Beijing are increasingly targeting their spouses and relatives.
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The US Treasury Department sanctions a pair of Chinese hackers linked to “malicious cyber operations targeting US critical infrastructure sectors.”
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Officials in Washington and London say hackers backed by the Chinese state sought to silence dissidents and surveil politicians.
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By Deeba Ahmed
Industrial organizations in Eastern Europe are the prime targets of this data-harvesting campaign.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chinese APT Group Hits Air-Gapped Systems in Europe with Malware
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France’s national cybersecurity agency said on Wednesday that it is contending with a massive campaign by Chinese state-backed hackers targeting French organizations through compromised routers. The Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems), or ANSSI, released forensic information to help French entities to recognize if they had been compromised. The alert did not specify which industries or specific organizations were targets. ANSSI said the APT31 group, sometimes known as Zirconium or Judgment Panda, carried out the reconnaissance. The group’s prior targets include Finland’s parliament, according to a June allegation from the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service, and the presidential campaign of then-contender Joe Biden in 2020, according to Google’s Threat Analysis Group. APT31’s effort in France is “a large intrusion campaign of compromise” that is “still in progress and still ongoing,” according to an English version of the ANSSI alert. France’s […]
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On Monday (19JUL2021) President Biden announced that the US and its allies were joining together to condemn and expose that China was behind a set of unprecedented attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange servers conducted earlier this… Continue reading Nations come together to condemn China: APT31 and APT40
The Finnish government has blamed a group of suspected Chinese spies for hacking into the Finnish parliament last year and accessing emails. In a statement Thursday, Finnish intelligence officials pointed the finger at APT31, a hacking group that security researchers say operates on behalf of Chinese interests. The intrusions began last fall and were revealed in December, when the speaker of the Finnish parliament described it as “hostile cyber activity” that could harm Finnish interests. The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service labeled it a state-backed operation. That statement said APT31 was responsible, but did not name China directly. Separately, Finnish police on Thursday describe the hacking as “aggravated espionage” and “message interception.” The Finnish statements are part of a pattern of increased willingness of U.S. allies in Europe to blame specific hacking groups for spying campaigns. Viktor Rantala, a Finnish scholar, said it was the first time that he could recall that […]
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The U.S. intelligence community was rocked in 2017 when a group of mysterious hackers known as the Shadow Brokers leaked a trove of National Security Agency hacking tools for public consumption. The exact identity of the leakers remains unknown to this day. According to a growing body of security research, though, hackers with suspected links to the Chinese government may have had access to some of the same tools before they were published, and the Shadow Brokers may not be the only thieves the U.S. intelligence community has to worry about. According to new research from Israeli security firm Check Point published Monday, a group of Chinese hackers known as APT31 appear to have copied an exploit developed by Equation Group, a hacking group broadly believed to be associated with the NSA, more than two years before the Shadow Brokers leaked the trove of NSA tools. The exploit, which Check […]
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It comes as no surprise to hear that Russia is up to its old tricks. China and Iran are also in on the game.
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Google TAG researchers warn that APTs are targeting campaign staffers for both Donald Trump and Joe Biden with phishing emails. Continue reading Trump, Biden Campaign Staffers Targeted By APT Phishing Emails