CVE-2018-16982

Open Chinese Convert OpenCC 1.0.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault because BinaryDict::NewFromFile in BinaryDict.cpp may have out-of-bounds keyOffset and valueOffset values via a crafted .ocd file...

LuckyMouse signs malicious NDISProxy driver with certificate of Chinese IT company

What happened? Since March 2018 we have discovered several infections where a previously unknown Trojan was injected into the lsass.exe system process memory. These implants were injected by the digitally signed 32- and 64-bit network filtering driver NDISProxy. Interestingly, this driver is sign...

Mac App Store apps are stealing user data

There is a concerning trend lately in the Mac App Store. Several security researchers have independently found different apps that are collecting sensitive user data and uploading it to servers controlled by the developer. This is referred to as exfiltrating the data. Some of this data is actuall...

APT10 Under Close Scrutiny as Potentially Linked to Chinese Ministry of State Security

Researchers claim that APT10, a likely China-based threat actor, is believed directly connected to the Chinese Ministry of State Security’s MSS Tianjin bureau. The allegations come from CrowdStrike which released a report Friday that claims it has found firm ties that link APT10 or Stone Panda wi...

PoC Code Surfaces to Exploit Apache Struts 2 Vulnerability

Proof-of-concept code found on the GitHub repository could allow attackers to easily take advantage of a recently identified vulnerability in the Apache Struts 2 framework. The vulnerability CVE-2018-11776, identified earlier this week, could allow an adversary to execute remote code on targeted...

Misconfigured backup leads to exposure of 50.5 million GOMO Mobile customers

By Waqas The same company was once caught spying on its Keyboard app users. GOMO, which is also known as Sungy Mobile, is a well-known Chinese mobile app and software developer company. It is famous worldwide for GO series applications Yes, the developers of popular GOKeyboard app that was caught...

Google Secretly Planning to Launch a Censored Search Engine in China

After an eight-year-long absence from the most populated country in the world, Google search is going to dramatically make a comeback in China. Google is reportedly planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that is going to blacklist certain websites and search terms to...

Spectre Will Haunt Us For a Long Time

During a recent Congressional hearing, Senators voiced concerns about the ongoing Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. While the technical details were predictably glossed over, most of the hearing focused on Intel informing Chinese partners about the flaws six months before they went public...

Chinese Hackers Mount Espionage Campaign During Trump-Putin Summit

Cyberattackers, unsurprisingly, appear to be interested in Donald Trump as an intelligence target – as evidenced by an uncharacteristic spate of strikes against IoT devices in Finland during the American president’s summit there with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. According to researchers, the uptick w...

New Report on Chinese Intelligence Cyber-Operations

The company ProtectWise just published a long report linking a bunch of Chinese cyber-operations over the past few years. The always interesting gruqq has some interesting commentary on the group and its tactics. Lots of detailed information in the report, but I admit that I have never heard of...

Apple Transfers Chinese Users' iCloud Data to State-Controlled Data Centers

There's terrible news for Apple users in China. Apple's Chinese data center partner has transferred iCloud data, belonging to 130 million China-based users, to a cloud storage service managed by a state-owned mobile telecom provider—raising concerns about privacy. Back in February this year, Appl...

Chinese Espionage Group TEMP.Periscope Targets Cambodia Ahead of July 2018 Elections and Reveals Broad Operations Globally

Introduction FireEye has examined a range of TEMP.Periscope activity revealing extensive interest in Cambodia's politics, with active compromises of multiple Cambodian entities related to the country’s electoral system. This includes compromises of Cambodian government entities charged with...

APT15 Pokes Its Head Out With Upgraded MirageFox RAT

The elusive APT15 cyber-espionage group, believed to be affiliated with the Chinese government, has been spotted for the first time in many months, mounting a highly targeted spy campaign using an upgraded version of the Mirage remote access trojan. This is the first evidence of the China-linked...

Chinese hackers attack National Data Center using watering hole attack

By Waqas The IT security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have published a This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chinese hackers attack National Data Center using watering hole attack...

Chinese Hackers Carried Out Country-Level Watering Hole Attack

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an espionage campaign that has targeted a national data center of an unnamed central Asian country in order to conduct watering hole attacks. The campaign is believed to be active covertly since fall 2017 but was spotted in March by security researchers fr...

Chinese Hackers Carried Out Country-Level Watering Hole Attack

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an espionage campaign that has targeted a national data center of an unnamed central Asian country in order to conduct watering hole attacks. The campaign is believed to be active covertly since fall 2017 but was spotted in March by security researchers fr...

Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off ‘Massive’ Amounts of Undersea Military Data

Nation-state attackers affiliated with the Chinese government have made off with a trove of undersea military secrets, according to a report. Hackers were able to mount a lateral attack after compromising the networks of a Navy contractor working for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Rhode...

Chinese hackers stole 614 gigabytes of US Navy’s anti-ship missile data

By Waqas In January and February 2018, the computers belonging to a U.S. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chinese hackers stole 614 gigabytes of US Navy's anti-ship missile data...

Facebook bug changed 14 million users' default privacy settings to public

Facebook admits as many as 14 millions of its users who thought they're sharing content privately with only friends may have inadvertently shared their posts with everyone because of a software bug. Facebook said in front of Congress in March over the Cambridge Analytica scandal that "every piece...

Cross site scripting

An issue was discovered in WUZHI CMS 4.1.0 There is a Stored XSS Vulnerability in "Account Settings - Member Centre - Chinese information - Ordinary member" via a QQ number, as demonstrated by a formqq10= substring...