Chinese Government Accused of Intercepting Traffic Between Google and CERNET

So far, we all are well aware of the fact that Chinese have had a past filled with cases of Cyber Crime. China is the world’s largest exporter of IT goods, but it has been criticized by many countries due to suspected backdoors in its products, including United States which has banned its several...

Community Health data leak suspected of the use of the Heartbleed vulnerability-a vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

When the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability in 4 months is discovered, the security community many experts are warning that the vulnerability could be used to expose sensitive data, although at the time also there is no evidence that attackers are actively using Heartbleed vulnerability. And now, a...

70% of South Korean Population Victimized In Online Gaming Heist

More than half of South Korea's 50 million population aged between 15 and 65 have been affected in a massive data breach, compromising their personal information. The data breach came to light when 16 individual were arrested following the theft of about 220 million stolen records from a number o...

South Korean Data Breach Compromises 27 Million

A data breach in South Korea appears to have impacted as many as 27 million citizens, roughly 70 percent of the nation’s population. Authorities with the South Jeolla Provincial Police Agency announced late last week that it had apprehended a 24-year-old, known simply as Kim, in addition to 15...

AdThief iOS Malware Affecting 75K Jailbroken Devices

A relatively new form of malware on iOS is estimated to have stolen revenue from 22 million ads and infected upwards to 75,000 devices so far. The malware, iOS/AdThief, was first identified back in March but wasn’t fully articulated until Axelle Aprville, a researcher with Fortinet, looked into t...

Samsung To Pay $2.3 Million Fine for Deceiving the U.S. Government

The United States division of Samsung has been charged with deceiving the US government into believing that several of its products met the necessary US government policies, resulting in the US government buying unauthorised Chinese-made electronics. The South Korean electronics giant has agreed ...

Bitcoin Phishing Scam Takes Aim at 400 Organizations

More than 400 organizations were recently targeted by a Bitcoin phishing campaign that intended to con users into disclosing their wallet passwords. According to Proofpoint, a California-based email security firm that recapped the campaign Wednesday, 12,000 messages were recently sent in two wave...

'AdThief' Chinese Malware Infects Over 75,000 Jailbroken iOS devices

If you have jailbroken your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and have downloaded pirated tweaks from pirated repositories, then you may be infected by “AdThief” malware, a Chinese malware that is now installed on more than 75,000 iPhone devices. According to a recent research paper published on Virus...

Community Health Systems APT Data Breach Medical Espionage

At first blush, the Community Health Systems data breach by Chinese hackers seems to be an anomaly. State-sponsored attackers generally target intellectual property for the purposes of military or economic gain; stealing healthcare credentials and personal patient records seems incongruous. But...

Xiaomi Phones Secretly Sending Users' Sensitive Data to Chinese Servers

Chinese telecoms equipment suppliers have previously been criticized by some countries due to suspected backdoors in its products, and if United States has banned its several major government departments, including NASA, Justice and Commerce Departments, from purchasing Chinese products and...

Android new attack: Google Voice Search attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Chinese University of Hong Kong researchers in the Preprint posted on the website of paper PDF, describes a novel permission to bypass attack method: Google Voice Search attack. An attacker can leverage a zero-permissions Android app VoicEmployer, front activationoperating system built-in voice...

Canada NRC Hit by Apparent Chinese Cyber Attack

One of Canada’s premier research and technology organizations was hit with a cyber-attack recently that forced the cooperative offline; the attack – which appears to be Chinese in origin – was so serious the organization is being forced to rebuild its entire system. The National Research Council ...

Chinese Hackers Stole Blueprints of Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense System

Chinese hackers infiltrated the databases of three Israeli defense contractors and stole plans for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system, according to an investigation by a Maryland-based cyber security firm ‘Cyber Engineering Services Inc. CyberESI’. Not just this, the hackers were also able...

PCMAN FTP 2.07 PORT 命令 缓冲区溢出漏洞（0day）

No description provided by source. Exploit Title: PCMAN FTP 2.07 PORT Command Buffer Overflow Exploit Date: 07 13,2014 Exploit Author: niubl Version: 2.07 Tested on: Windows xp sp3 chinese Email: [email protected] thank for Mahmod Mahajna. i learn from him. 漏洞太多了这个版本软件 import socket as s from sys...

Chinese Hackers Broke into the Database of U.S. Federal Employees

Chinese hackers broke into the computer systems of United States government agency that keeps the personal information of all federal employees, according to the paper published in the New York Times. The attack occurred on the Office of Personnel Management and Senior American officials believe...

sunway forcecontrol <= 6.1 sp3 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. Luigi Auriemma Application: Sunway ForceControl http://www.sunwayland.com.cn/pro.asp Versions: = 6.1 sp3 with AngelServer and WebServer updated Platforms: Windows Bugs: various stack overflows directory traversals third party ActiveX code execution various Denia...

VMware Tools 3.1 HGFS.Sys Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26556/info VMware Tools is prone to a privilege-escalation vulnerability. The application fails to properly drop privileges before performing certain functions. An attacker can exploit this in the guest opertaing system t...

QQPlayer asx File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit

No description provided by source. Title: QQPlayer asx File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit Author: Li Qingshan of Information Security Engineering Center,School of Software and Microelectronics,Peking University Vendor: www.qq.com Platform: Windows XPSP3 Chinese Simplified Test: QQPlayer...

Microsoft Excel 2000-2004 Style Handling and Repair Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18872/info Microsoft Excel is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. Successfully exploiting this issue allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of targeted users. A proof-of-concept malicious co...

QQPlayer cue File Buffer Overflow Exploit

No description provided by source. !/usr/bin/env python Title: QQPlayer cue File Buffer Overflow Exploit Author: Lufeng Li of Neusoft Corporation Vendor: www.qq.com Platform: Windows XPSP3 Chinese Simplified Tested: QQPlayer 2.3.696.400 Vulnerable: QQPlayer=2.3.696.400p1 Code : head = '''FILE '''...