Category Archives: Chinese Hackers

Chinese-linked hackers breached top Australian defense university: report

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The IT systems of a leading Australian university were hit by hackers suspected to be Chinese, university and Australian government officials confirmed to an Australian news outlet last week. The attacks on Australian National University’s computer networks began last year and have not been fully contained. Over the course of the past few months, the university has been working with domestic intelligence agencies to mitigate the fallout from the breach, secure the university’s servers and stage countermeasures. The incident was first reported by the Sydney Morning Herald. Australian National University (ANU) is among the country’s top-ranked colleges, with numerous research outfits dedicated to national security, defense-related issues and strategic affairs. ANU houses the National Security College, which grooms officers for the Australian military and intelligence services. “Over the past several months the university has been working in partnership with Australia government agencies to assess the scale and minimize the impact of the […]

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FireEye denies ‘hack back’ claims detailed in new book

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The company that authored a watershed report on how Chinese hackers operate is pushing back against claims in a new book that the research was conducted through the use of illegal offensive hacking techniques. In “The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age,”  New York Times national security correspondent David Sanger writes that the U.S.-based cybersecurity firm Mandiant penetrated a Chinese military cyber unit after it hacked into one of its customer’s systems in order to nail down attribution. According to Sanger, while Mandiant observed Chinese hackers breaching a client several years ago, they used it as an opportunity to target the attackers’ systems, which allowed access to a video camera that exposed the hackers’ faces:  [Then CEO Kevin Mandia] was certain the hackers were part of Unit 61398, but he also knew that accusing the Chinese military directly would constitute a huge step for his company. Over seven years, he […]

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Chinese Hackers Carried Out Country-Level Watering Hole Attack

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Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an espionage campaign that has targeted a national data center of an unnamed central Asian country in order to conduct watering hole attacks.

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Leaked NSA Dump Also Contains Tools Agency Used to Track Other Hackers

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A years ago when the mysterious hacking group ‘The Shadow Brokers’ dumped a massive trove of sensitive data stolen from the US intelligence agency NSA, everyone started looking for secret hacking tools and zero-day exploits.

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Cyber Espionage Group Targets Asian Countries With Bitcoin Mining Malware

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Security researchers have discovered a custom-built piece of malware that’s wreaking havoc in Asia for past several months and is capable of performing nasty tasks, like password stealing, bitcoin mining, and providing hackers complete remote access to… Continue reading Cyber Espionage Group Targets Asian Countries With Bitcoin Mining Malware→

U.S. Charges Three Chinese Hackers for Hacking Siemens, Trimble & Moody

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The United States Justice Department has charged three Chinese nationals for allegedly hacking Moody’s Analytics economist, German electronics manufacturer Siemens, and GPS maker Trimble, and stealing gigabytes of sensitive data and trade secrets.

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Built-in Keylogger Found in MantisTek GK2 Keyboards—Sends Data to China

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“The right keyboard can make all the difference between a victory and a defeat in a video game battlefield.”

If you are a gamer, you can relate to the above quote.

But what if your winning weapon betrays you?

The popular 104-key Mantistek GK2 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard that costs around €49.66 has allegedly been caught silently recording everything you type on your keyboard and sending them

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FBI Arrests Another Hacker Who Visited United States to Attend a Conference

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The FBI has arrested a Chinese citizen for allegedly distributing malware used in the 2015 massive OPM breach that resulted in the theft of personal details of more than 25 Million U.S. federal employees, including 5.6 Million federal officials’ finger… Continue reading FBI Arrests Another Hacker Who Visited United States to Attend a Conference→

FBI Arrests Another Hacker Who Visited United States to Attend a Conference

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The FBI has arrested a Chinese citizen for allegedly distributing malware used in the 2015 massive OPM breach that resulted in the theft of personal details of more than 25 Million U.S. federal employees, including 5.6 Million federal officials’ finger… Continue reading FBI Arrests Another Hacker Who Visited United States to Attend a Conference→

Over 500 Android Apps On Google Play Store Found Spying On 100 Million Users

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Over 500 different Android apps that have been downloaded more than 100 million times from the official Google Play Store found to be infected with a malicious ad library that secretly distributes spyware to users and can perform dangerous operations.
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