Chinese-Owned VPNs
May 27 2025One one my biggest worries about VPNs is the amount of trust users need to place in them, and how opaque most of them are about who owns them...
Read moreThis is a weird story:
U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment...
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Chinese AI Submersible
May 7 2025A Chinese company has developed an AI-piloted submersible that can reach speeds “similar to a destroyer or a US Navy torpedo,” dive “up to 60 metres underwater,” and...
Read moreChina Sort of Admits to Being Behind Volt Typhoon
April 14 2025The Wall Street Journal has the story:
Chinese officials acknowledged in a secret December meeting that Beijing was behind a widespread series of alarming cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure, according...
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Silk Typhoon Hackers Indicted
March 12 2025Lots of interesting details in the story:
The US Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the indictment of 12 Chinese individuals accused of more than a decade of...
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From the Washington Post: The sanctions target Beijing Integrity Technology Group, which U.S. officials say employed workers responsible for the Flax Typhoon attacks which compromised devices including routers and internet-enabled...
Read moreSalt Typhoon’s Reach Continues to Grow
December 30 2024The US government has identified a ninth telecom that was successfully hacked by Salt Typhoon.
Read moreIoT Devices in Password-Spraying Botnet
November 6 2024Microsoft is warning Azure cloud users that a Chinese controlled botnet is engaging in “highly evasive” password spraying. Not sure about the “highly evasive” part; the techniques seem...
Read moreSophos Versus the Chinese Hackers
November 4 2024Really interesting story of Sophos’s five-year war against Chinese hackers.
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