More on the Supermicro Spying Story

I've blogged twice about the Bloomberg story that China bugged Supermicro networking equipment destined to the US. We still don't know if the story is true, although I am increasingly skeptical because of the lack of corroborating evidence to emerge. We don't know anything more, but this is the...

Trump's Personal iPhone Would Be a National Security Risk

By using a personal iPhone instead of secured lines, President Trump makes it entirely too easy for China and Russia to spy...

China's Hacking of the Border Gateway Protocol

This is a long -- and somewhat technical -- paper by Chris C. Demchak and Yuval Shavitt about China's repeated hacking of the Internet Border Gateway Protocol BGP: "China's Maxim ­ Leave No Access Point Unexploited: The Hidden Story of China Telecom's BGP Hijacking." BGP hacking is how large...

New APT Could Signal Reemergence of Notorious Comment Crew

A recently observed APT campaign, dubbed Operation Oceansalt, could herald the return of the infamous China-linked hacking group known as Comment Crew or APT1. Attacks are cunning and are defined by their their deep targeting and use of an innovative multi-wave attack methodology. Operation...

Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF for Windows Memory Misreference Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-21843)

Foxit Reader for Windows is a Windows-based PDF document reader from China's Foxit Foxit Software Corporation.Foxit PhantomPDF for Windows is its commercial version. A memory misreference vulnerability exists in the handling of the defaultValue property of the ComboBox object in Foxit Reader...

Starbucks: China - president-starbucks.com.cn DNS configuration reported as takeover

k3mlol discovered that president-starbucks.com.cn was displaying Chinese gambling content, reporting it as a takeover. It was ultimately determined to be a released resource, no longer owned by Starbucks. This report was awarded a bounty in error; Future reports against this domain would not...

Another Bloomberg Story about Supply-Chain Hardware Attacks from China

Bloomberg has another story about hardware surveillance implants in equipment made in China. This implant is different from the one Bloomberg reported on last week. That story has been denied by pretty much everyone else, but Bloomberg is sticking by its story and its sources. I linked to other...

How the US Halted China’s Cybertheft—Using a Chinese Spy

For years, China has systematically looted American trade secrets. Here's the messy inside story of how DC got Beijing to clean up its act for a while...

ThreatList: Microsoft IIS Sees Triple-Digit Spike in Cyberattack Volume

Internet Information Services IIS, an extensible web server originally created by Microsoft for use with the Windows NT family, saw a whopping 782x increase in cyberattacks during the second quarter, according to analysis. According to eSentire’s latest threat report based on data gathered from...

Multiple mobile browsers in China have information leakage vulnerabilities

A mobile browser is a mobile Internet tool that allows users to browse Internet content on a cell phone terminal over a wireless communication network. Information leakage vulnerabilities exist in several domestic cell phone browsers, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive...

2018 Flare-On Challenge Solutions

We are pleased to announce the conclusion of the fifth annual Flare-On Challenge. The numbers are in and we can safely say that this was by far the most difficult challenge we’ve ever hosted. We plan to reduce the difficulty next year, so it may be that the 114 people who solved this year’s...

Threatpost New Wrap Podcast For Oct. 5

Threatpost’s Lindsey O’Donnell and Tom Spring break down the highlights on the heels of a week filled with cybersecurity news. Included in the podcast week news wrap, ending Oct. 5, are the Bloomberg report alleging that a China government-affiliated group slipped tiny microchips into Super Micro...

Why Supply Chain Hacks Are a Cybersecurity Worse Case Scenario

A blockbuster report from Bloomberg says that China has compromised servers used by major US companies. It's a problem that experts have long feared, and still don't know how to resolve...

china-trade-research.hktdc.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-682669 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| china-trade-research.hktdc.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Chinese Spying Chips Found Hidden On Servers Used By US Companies

A media report today revealed details of a significant supply chain attack which appears to be one of the largest corporate espionage and hardware hacking programs from a nation-state. According to a lengthy report published today by Bloomberg, a tiny surveillance chip, not much bigger than a gra...

Adobe Acrobat and Reader Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-20137)

Adobe Acrobat and Reader are the United States of America Audobee Adobe company's products. The former is a set of PDF file editing and conversion tools, the latter is a set of PDF document reading software. Adobe Acrobat and Reader in the existence of out-of-bounds read vulnerability. Remote...

Starbucks: China - ecjobsdc.starbucks.com.cn html/shtml file upload vulnerability

1, Summary During the test, I found ecjobsdc.starbucks.com.cn this site has an upload vulnerability, you can upload html and shtml format files, so you can read the server's intranet IP, the physical address of the website application and read the website web.config file. 2, Vulnerability scope...

SAP HCM Fiori People Profile GBX01 HR Privilege Vulnerability

SAP HCM Fiori People Profile GBX01 HR is a human resource management solution from SAP. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in SAP HCM Fiori People Profile GBX01 HR version 6.0, which can be exploited by an attacker to gain privileges due to a failure of the program to perform...

Intel CSME Resource Management Error Vulnerability

Intel CSME is a converged security management engine from Intel Corporation, U.S.A. Intel AMT is one of the active management technology modules. A resource management error vulnerability exists in Intel CSME. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service memory leak...

No.1 Adware Removal Tool On Apple App Store Caught Spying On Mac Users

A highly popular top-tier app in Apple's Mac App Store that's designed to protect its users from adware and malware threats has been, ironically, found surreptitiously stealing their browsing history without their consent, and sending it to a server in China. What's more concerning? Even after...