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Five alleged members of the China-linked advanced threat group and two associates have been indicted by a Federal grand jury, on dozens of charges. Continue reading APT41 Operatives Indicted as Sophisticated Hacking Activity Continues
Chipmaker investigates a leak of intellectual property from its partner and customer resource center. Continue reading Hackers Dump 20GB of Intel’s Confidential Data Online
Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, a centerpiece of the global supply chain for smartphones and computing equipment, was the focus of a hacking campaign targeting corporate data over the last two years, Taiwan-based security firm CyCraft Technology claimed Thursday. The hackers went after at least seven vendors in the semiconductor industry in 2018 and 2019, quietly scouring networks for source code and chip-related software, CyCraft said. Analysts say the campaign, which reportedly hit a sprawling campus of computing firms in northwest Taiwan, shows how the tech sector’s most prized data is sought out by well-resourced hacking groups. “They’re choosing the victims very precisely,” C.K. Chen, senior researcher at CyCraft, said of the hackers. “They attack the top vendor in a market segment, and then attack their subsidiaries, their competitors, their partners and their supply chain vendors.” It was unclear which companies were targeted; CyCraft declined to name them. It was also unclear who was responsible for the […]
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) continues to use every arrow in its prosecutorial quiver to go after those participants who are exposing and sharing U.S. research and technologies to China via the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) Th… Continue reading DoJ Continues to Target China’s Thousand Talents Program in U.S.
The FBI has provided U.S. companies more information on the extent of recent criminal and foreign government-backed hacking operations against the health care sector and warned of ongoing efforts to steal U.S. research data. Criminal and state actors continue to target U.S. clinical trial data, trade secrets, and the “sensitive data and proprietary research of U.S. universities and research facilities,” the FBI told industry in an advisory this week. “Likely due to the current global public health crisis, the FBI has observed some nation-states shifting cyber resources to collect against the [health care and public health] sector, while criminals are targeting similar entities for financial gain.” The advisory, which CyberScoop obtained, includes multiple examples since February of state-linked hackers trying to compromise and retain access to the networks of organizations in the U.S. health care and public health sector. It is the latest in a series of warnings from U.S. officials about similar […]
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Japan is investigating a possible breach of sensitive defense contracting data following a cyberattack last year on electronics giant Mitsubishi Electric, officials said Wednesday. Data likely stolen in the hack, which Mitsubishi disclosed earlier this year, included specifications of hypersonic missile prototypes that Japan is developing, according to a report in Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper. The Ministry of Defense had sent the specifications to multiple companies, including Mitsubishi, interested in bidding on the missile contract, the report said. Japanese officials have said the high-velocity missile could be used to protect islands in the East China Sea that are the subject of an ongoing territorial dispute between Japan and China. At a press conference Wednesday, government spokesperson Yoshihide Suga confirmed that Japan’s Ministry of Defense was examining the incident’s impact on national security, but declined to give further details. Mitsubishi said in a statement that it reported the breach to the […]
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The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI on Wednesday blamed hackers linked with the Chinese government for attempting to steal U.S. research into a coronavirus vaccine, an escalation of the bilateral feud over handling of the global pandemic. The U.S. agencies accused Chinese hackers as well as spies of trying to pilfer intellectual property and other information related to coronavirus treatments. “The FBI is investigating the targeting and compromise of U.S. organizations conducting COVID-19-related research by [People’s Republic of China]-affiliated cyber actors and non-traditional collectors,” the statement says. “The potential theft of this information jeopardizes the delivery of secure, effective, and efficient treatment options.” Labeling their statement a “public service announcement,” the agencies urged medical research organizations to be vigilant and report suspicious cyber activity. The announcement adds to a slew of charges the Trump administration has made against China for allegedly stealing billions of dollars in U.S. intellectual property. Beijing has […]
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Hackers linked with foreign governments continue to target multiple global health care organizations and pharmaceutical companies in a possible bid to gather intelligence or steal research related to the coronavirus pandemic, American and British cybersecurity agencies said Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity division and the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) “are currently investigating a number of incidents in which threat actors are targeting pharmaceutical companies, medical research organizations, and universities,” the agencies said in a joint advisory. They did not point the finger at particular governments. Advanced persistent threat (APT) groups, as state-linked hackers are known, have been scanning public websites of target companies looking for insecure software to exploit, said DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the NCSC. Hackers have also been using a technique called password spraying, which throws common passwords at targets until one of them works, to attack health care organizations in the U.S., […]
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Several federal agencies recommended Thursday that U.S. regulators block a Chinese state-owned telecommunications firm from providing service to American customers. The Departments of Justice, Defense, and State urged the Federal Communications Commission to take action against China Telecom, a subsidiary of a Chinese state-owned telecommunications company, over cybersecurity and national security concerns, according to a Justice Department statement. The departments said the FCC should revoke China Telecom’s licenses to operate in the U.S. because, as a Beijing-based firm, China Telecom can “provide opportunities for [China] to engage in malicious cyber activity enabling economic espionage and disruption and misrouting of U.S. communications,” the department says. China Telecom has acted as a “common carrier,” meaning it connects domestic and international networks, since 2007. The U.S. government in recent years has warned that Chinese companies may not be able to refuse Beijing’s intelligence requests. This recommendation comes after U.S. intelligence officials have warned for years that the Chinese government could leverage another […]
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