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.
Read moreThe headline is pretty scary: “China’s Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption.” No, it’s not true. This debunking saved me the trouble of writing one. It all seems to have come...
Read moreChina Possibly Hacking US “Lawful Access” Backdoor
October 8 2024The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Chinese hackers (Salt Typhoon) penetrated the networks of US broadband providers, and might have accessed the backdoors that the federal government...
Read moreFBI Shuts Down Chinese Botnet
September 19 2024The FBI has shut down a botnet run by Chinese hackers:
The botnet malware infected a number of different types of internet-connected devices around the world, including home routers,...
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