(flickr) US agencies circulate warning about ‘aggressive’ Chinese hacking effort to steal secrets from a range of targets Despite all the attention on ransomware gangs based in Russia, Chinese state-backed hacking remains a formidable threat to U.S. interests. Jul 16, 2021 By Sean Lyngaas
Chinese President Xi Jinping, pictured on September 30, 2020. (Photo by Noel Celis / AFP) (Photo by NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images) Pulse Secure VPN hacking also hit transportation, telecom firms, FireEye says The U.S. government has also been affected. May 27, 2021 By Sean Lyngaas
A member of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) honour guard holds a Chinese national flag during an open day of Stonecutters Island naval base, in Hong Kong. (Reuters) Intrusion Truth details work of suspected Chinese hackers who are under indictment in US After a period of inactivity and then a Twitter restriction, the doxxing site is back. May 6, 2021 By Sean Lyngaas
SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee in February. (Photo by Demetrius Freeman / POOL / AFP) (Photo by DEMETRIUS FREEMAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) China-linked hackers exploited SolarWinds software in 2020 breach, researchers say The hackers, like the alleged Russians, tailored the code to the SolarWinds platform. Mar 8, 2021 By Sean Lyngaas
(Getty Images) Ticketmaster pays $10M fine to settle charges of using stolen passwords to spy on rival company A former employee at the rival company had leaked logins to Ticketmaster, according to the Department of Justice. Dec 31, 2020 By Joe Warminsky
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, then the Homeland Security acting secretary, testifying before a Senate panel in August (Flickr/Department of Homeland Security) DHS warns US businesses of China’s data-collection practices The advisory is an acknowledgement that China’s alleged theft of intellectual property is still a rampant problem for U.S. officials. Dec 23, 2020 By Sean Lyngaas
Researchers at Kaspersky, whose headquarters are pictured, made the discovery. (Mikhail Deynekin/Wikicommons) Russian-speaking hackers target Russian organizations with industrial spying tools The discovery adds to a growing body of public reporting on corporate hacking that has often focused on Chinese-speaking hackers Oct 8, 2020 By Sean Lyngaas
The flags of Azerbaijan and Armenia. The two countries have long contested the region of Nagorno-Karabakh (Getty Images). Spies hacked Azerbaijan government officials as Nagorno-Karabakh conflict escalated, researchers say The data from Talos shows how digital espionage often coincides with bursts of violence in modern war. Oct 6, 2020 By Sean Lyngaas
Malicious Autodesk plugin at root of cyber-espionage campaign Hackers-for-hire appear to be making a buck in real estate sector cyber-espionage via Autodesk. Aug 26, 2020 By Shannon Vavra
A Gulfstream G550 owned by Poland’s Air Force is pictured taking off from the Warsaw Chopin Airport in 2018. Gulfstream’s parent company, General Dynamics, is one of at least two companies that an APT group has impersonated in an espionage scheme, according to ESET. (Getty Images) How spies used LinkedIn to hack European defense companies It's a cautionary tale in the use of social engineering for espionage. Jun 17, 2020 By Sean Lyngaas