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UCLA researcher charged with destroying hard drive amid FBI probe
By Zara Khan The culprit is a Chinese national on a J-1 nonimmigrant visa working as a researcher for UCLA. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: UCLA researcher charged with destroying hard drive amid FBI probe...
DoJ Aims to Seize 280 Cryptocurrency Accounts Used by Hackers
The U.S. government aims to seize control of 280 illegal cryptocurrency accounts it claims were used by North Korean state-sponsored attackers in their efforts to hack cryptocurrency exchanges and funnel hundreds of millions in stolen funds through a Chinese money-laundering network. The U.S...
Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CNVD-2020-51778)
Microsoft Internet Explorer IE is a Web browser that comes with the Windows operating system from the American company Microsoft. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way the Scripting Engine handles memory in Microsoft IE version 11. The vulnerability stems from an improperly...
TikTok Surreptitiously Collected Android User Data Using Google-Prohibited Tactic
TikTok has been collecting unique identifiers from millions of Android devices without their users’ knowledge using a tactic previously prohibited by Google because it violated people’s privacy, new research has found. Click to register! The app concealed the practice, which can track users onlin...
Black Hat 2020: Linux Spyware Stack Ties Together 5 Chinese APTs
A stack of Linux backdoor malware used for espionage, compiled dynamically and customizable to specific targets, is being used as a shared resource by five different Chinese-language APT groups, according to researchers. According to an analysis from BlackBerry released at Black Hat 2020 on...
US Government Warns of a New Strain of Chinese 'Taidoor' Virus
Intelligence agencies in the US have released information about a new variant of 12-year-old computer virus used by China's state-sponsored hackers targeting governments, corporations, and think tanks. Named "Taidoor," the malware has done an 'excellent' job of compromising systems as early as...
US Government Warns of a New Strain of Chinese 'Taidoor' Virus
Intelligence agencies in the US have released information about a new variant of 12-year-old computer virus used by China's state-sponsored hackers targeting governments, corporations, and think tanks. Named "Taidoor, " the malware has done an 'excellent' job of compromising systems as early as...
Chinese Malicious Cyber Activity
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the Department of Defense DoD have identified a malware variant—referred as TAIDOOR—used by the Chinese government. In addition, U.S. Cyber Command has released the malware sample to the malwar...
EU sanctions hackers from China, Russia, North Korea who're wanted by the FBI
The Council of the European Union has imposed its first-ever sanctions against persons or entities involved in various cyber-attacks targeting European citizens, and its member states. The directive has been issued against six individuals and three entities responsible for or involved in various...
TikTok is being discouraged and the app may be banned
In recent news retail giant Amazon sent a memo to employees telling them to delete the popular social media app TikTok from their phones. In the memo it stated that the app would pose a security risk without going into details. Later the memo was withdrawn without an explanation except that it wa...
A.I. Helped Uncover Chinese Boats Hiding in North Korean Waters
A combination of technologies helped scientists discover a potentially illegal fishing operation involving more than 900 vessels...
DJI Drone App Riddled With Privacy Issues, Researchers Allege
Leading commercial drone maker DJI is hitting back against researcher allegations that its Android mobile application is riddled with privacy holes. One includes that the app continues to run in the background even after it’s been closed and collects sensitive data from users without consent. The...
US Charges 2 Chinese Hackers for Targeting COVID-19 Research and Trade Secrets
The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ yesterday revealed charges against two Chinese nationals for their alleged involvement in a decade-long hacking spree targeting dissidents, government agencies, and hundreds of organizations in as many as 11 countries. The 11-count indictment, which was unsealed...
US Charges 2 Chinese Hackers for Targeting COVID-19 Research and Trade Secrets
The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ yesterday revealed charges against two Chinese nationals for their alleged involvement in a decade-long hacking spree targeting dissidents, government agencies, and hundreds of organizations in as many as 11 countries. The 11-count indictment, which was unsealed...
Chinese Hackers Charged in Decade-Long Crime and Spying Spree
From defense contractors to videogame companies, the indictment details an astonishing array of victims...
Chinese Hackers Escalate Attacks Against India and Hong Kong Amid Tensions
An emerging threat actor out of China has been traced to a new hacking campaign aimed at government agencies in India and residents of Hong Kong intending to steal sensitive information, cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes revealed in the latest report shared with The Hacker News. The attacks were...
Chinese APT group targets India and Hong Kong using new variant of MgBot malware
This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi and Jérôme Segura On July 2, we found an archive file with an embedded document pretending to be from the government of India. This file used template injection to drop a malicious template which loaded a variant of Cobalt Strike. One day later, the sam...
Does TikTok Really Pose a Risk to US National Security?
Concerns about the Chinese government shouldn't be dismissed, experts say. But banning TikTok would be a drastic measure...
CVE-2020-1350 Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution (SigRed)
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Windows Domain Name System servers when they fail to properly handle requests, aka ‘Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability’. Recent assessments: gwillcox-r7 at July 14, 2020 6:11pm UTC reported: Important Update: This is now supposed...