Justice Department indicts Chinese officials and contractors over cyber intrusion campaign
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged 12 Chinese nationals, including officers of China’s Ministry of Public Security ...
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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors
New and expanding China-backed threat groups are pushing a broader cyber strategy, likely with eventual reunification with ...
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Unusual attack linked to Chinese APT group combines espionage and ransomware
This is not unusual as toolset sharing is a known attribute of Chinese cyberespionage efforts. However, PlugX is not considered publicly available malware and is exclusively used by Chinese APTs.
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Chinese Hackers Implant Backdoor Malware on Juniper Routers
Mandiant revealed that Chinese espionage actor UNC3886 has deployed modified versions of the TinyShell backdoor across ...
US charges Chinese hackers linked to critical infrastructure breaches
The US Justice Department has charged Chinese state security officers along with APT27 and i-Soon hackers for network ...
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New NailaoLocker ransomware used against EU healthcare orgs
to gain access to targeted networks and deploy the ShadowPad and PlugX malware, two families tightly associated with Chinese state-sponsored threat groups. Orange Cyberdefense CERT links the ...
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Chinese hackers indicted in US for Treasury breach, other attacks
Twelve Chinese nationals, including two public ... and installed malware, such as PlugX malware, that provided persistent access," the Justice Department said. Their targets included US-based ...