Security guards wait at an entrance before the second plenary session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 7, 2024. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) Chinese hackers target family members to surveil hard targets To surveil security conscious politicians and dissidents, hackers linked to Beijing are increasingly targeting their spouses and relatives. Mar 26, 2024 By Derek B. Johnson
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland arrives to deliver remarks at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. on March 21, 2024. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) US and UK accuse China of cyber operations targeting domestic politics Officials in Washington and London say hackers backed by the Chinese state sought to silence dissidents and surveil politicians. Mar 25, 2024 By AJ Vicens Derek B. Johnson
This photograph taken on September 18, 2019, shows the logo of the French national cybersecurity agency Agence Nationale de la securite des systemes d’information(ANSSI) taken at ANSSI headquarters in Paris. (Photo by ERIC PIERMONT / AFP / Getty Images) Chinese spies are exploiting routers to try hacking French targets, cyber agency says It's part of a blitz of foreign governments calling out Beijing-sponsored hackers. Jul 21, 2021 By Tim Starks
Environmental protesters outside of Finnish parliament in March 2019. Finnish officials have implicated a China-linked hacking group in a breach of the parliament. (VESA MOILANEN/AFP via Getty Images) Finland implicates China-linked APT31 in parliament hack It's only the latest case of alleged cyber-espionage to rock a Nordic parliament. Mar 18, 2021 By Sean Lyngaas
(Scoop News Group photo) Chinese hackers stole another NSA-linked hacking tool, research finds A growing body of research shows Chinese hackers going after NSA tools. Feb 22, 2021 By Shannon Vavra
President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in February. His campaign staff has been targeted with spearphishing emails from Iranian-linked hacker groups. (Flickr/Gage Skidmore) Google: Biden and Trump campaigns targeted by separate spearphishing campaigns Google Threat Analysis Group has seen Chinese and Iranian nation-state linked hackers targeting Joe Biden and President Donald Trump’s campaigns. Jun 4, 2020 By Shannon Vavra
(Getty Images) Right country, wrong group? Researchers say it wasn’t APT10 that hacked Norwegian software firm The hack of Visma was done by APT10, according to Recorded Future and Rapid7. Or was it? Other researchers say it had all the hallmarks of another… Feb 12, 2019 By Sean Lyngaas