WeChat is Surveilling International User Files to Strengthen China’s National Censorship Model

Chinese social media giant WeChat is screening documents and images shared by overseas users, according to researchers from the Citizen Lab of the University of Toronto. As of late 2019, the messaging app is said to have had more than 1 billion active … Continue reading WeChat is Surveilling International User Files to Strengthen China’s National Censorship Model

Popular Apps on Google Play Store Remain Unpatched

Check Point researchers found that hundreds of marquee Android mobile apps still contain vulnerabilities that allow remote code-execution even if users update. Continue reading Popular Apps on Google Play Store Remain Unpatched

Alibaba to help Salesforce localize and sell in China

Salesforce, the 20-year-old leader in customer relationship management (CRM) tools, is making a foray into Asia by working with one of the country’s largest tech firms, Alibaba. Alibaba will be the exclusive provider of Salesforce to enterprise customers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, and Salesforce will become the exclusive enterprise CRM software […] Continue reading Alibaba to help Salesforce localize and sell in China

The Ping is the Thing: Popular HTML5 Feature Used to Trick Chinese Mobile Users into Joining Latest DDoS Attack

DDoS attacks have always been a major threat to network infrastructure and web applications. Attackers are always creating new ways to exploit legitimate services for malicious purposes, forcing us to constantly research DDoS attacks in our CDN to buil… Continue reading The Ping is the Thing: Popular HTML5 Feature Used to Trick Chinese Mobile Users into Joining Latest DDoS Attack

More Than 100,000 PCs in China Infected by New Ransomware Strain

A new ransomware strain successfully infected more than 100,000 personal computers in China over a period of just four days. According to a report from Velvet Security, the first samples of this ransomware broke out on 1 December after users installed … Continue reading More Than 100,000 PCs in China Infected by New Ransomware Strain

New Ransomware Spreading Rapidly in China Infected Over 100,000 PCs

A new piece of ransomware is spreading rapidly across China that has already infected more than 100,000 computers in the last four days as a result of a supply-chain attack… and the number of infected users is continuously increasing every hour.

Wha… Continue reading New Ransomware Spreading Rapidly in China Infected Over 100,000 PCs