Xu Zewei was allegedly directed by China’s intelligence services to conduct a sweeping espionage campaign to steal data on COVID-19 research and other U.S. policy interests.
Sean Plankey, of Pennsylvania, responds to questioning during Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearings to examine his nomination to be Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, of the Department of Homeland Security, in the Dirksen Senate office building, in Washington, DC, on Wednesday July 24, 2025. (Mattie Neretin/CNP/Sipa USA)
The global campaign marks the second series of multiple actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco edge technology since last spring. The similarities don’t end there.
Attacker interest in the vulnerability is magnified by an unparalleled number of publicly available exploits, earning the defect the highest verified public exploit count of any CVE…
The attacks, which have impacted dozens of organizations, date back at least three years, lasting an average of 393 days. And that’s just what’s been uncovered in…
The security vendor silently patched a vulnerability, but did not assign the flaw a CVE or publicly disclose its existence until 17 days later. By then, widespread…
Each day without reauthorization erodes the trust, coordination, and shared visibility that have underpinned the resilience of America’s most critical systems.