The Mystery of iPhone Crashes That Apple Denies Are Linked to Chinese Hacking

Plus: A 22-year-old former intern gets put in charge of a key anti-terrorism program, threat intelligence firms finally wrangle their confusing names for hacker groups, and more...

Security update for postgresql14

This update for postgresql14 fixes the following issues: Upgrade to 14.18: CVE-2025-4207: Fixed PostgreSQL GB18030 encoding validation can read one byte past end of allocation for text that fails validation bsc1242931 Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended...

Verifiable Weighted Secret Sharing

Traditionally, threshold secret sharing TSS schemes assume all parties have equal weight, yet emerging systems like blockchains reveal disparities in party trustworthiness, such as stake or reputation. Weighted Secret Sharing WSS addresses this by assigning varying weights to parties, ensuring...

Chinese-Owned VPNs

One one my biggest worries about VPNs is the amount of trust users need to place in them, and how opaque most of them are about who owns them and what sorts of data they retain. A new study found that many commercials VPNS are often surreptitiously owned by Chinese companies. It would be hard for...

Chinese Hackers Exploit Cityworks 0-Day to Hit US Local Governments

Cisco Talos warns of active exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability CVE-2025-0994 in Cityworks supposedly by Chinese hackers from…...

USB: a Comprehensive and Unified Safety Evaluation Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models

Despite their remarkable achievements and widespread adoption, Multimodal Large Language Models MLLMs have revealed significant security vulnerabilities, highlighting the urgent need for robust safety evaluation benchmarks. Existing MLLM safety benchmarks, however, fall short in terms of data...

Hackers Use Fake VPN and Browser NSIS Installers to Deliver Winos 4.0 Malware

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a malware campaign that uses fake software installers masquerading as popular tools like LetsVPN and QQ Browser to deliver the Winos 4.0 framework. The campaign, first detected by Rapid7 in February 2025, involves the use of a multi-stage, memory-resident...

CVE-2023-32518

Unauth. Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in Ono Oogami WP Chinese Conversion plugin = 1.1.16 versions...

CVE-2023-51006

An issue in the openFile method of Chinese Perpetual Calendar v9.0.0 allows attackers to read any file via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2022-39074

There is an unauthorized access vulnerability in some ZTE mobile phones. If a malicious application is installed on the phone, it could start a non-public interface of an application without user permission...

Chinese Hackers Exploit Trimble Cityworks Flaw to Infiltrate U.S. Government Networks

A Chinese-speaking threat actor tracked as UAT-6382 has been linked to the exploitation of a now-patched remote-code-execution vulnerability in Trimble Cityworks to deliver Cobalt Strike and VShell. "UAT-6382 successfully exploited CVE-2025-0944, conducted reconnaissance, and rapidly deployed a...

Chinese Hackers Exploit Ivanti EPMM Bugs in Global Enterprise Network Attacks

A recently patched pair of security flaws affecting Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile EPMM software has been exploited by a China-nexus threat actor to target a wide range of sectors across Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific region. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2025-4427 CVSS score:...

NSIS Abuse and sRDI Shellcode: Anatomy of the Winos 4.0 Campaign

Co-authored byAnna Širokova and Ivan Feigl Executive summary Rapid7 has been tracking a malware campaign that uses fake software installers disguised as popular apps like VPN and QQBrowser—to deliver Winos v4.0, a hard-to-detect malware that runs entirely in memory and gives attackers remote...

UAT-6382 exploits Cityworks zero-day vulnerability to deliver malware

Cisco Talos has observed exploitation of CVE-2025-0994, a remote-code-execution vulnerability in Cityworks, a popular asset management system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and Trimble have both released advisories pertaining to this vulnerability, with Trimble's...

Chinese Hackers Deploy MarsSnake Backdoor in Multi-Year Attack on Saudi Organization

Threat hunters have exposed the tactics of a China-aligned threat actor called UnsolicitedBooker that targeted an unnamed international organization in Saudi Arabia with a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed MarsSnake. ESET, which first discovered the hacking group's intrusions targeting the...

Communications Backdoor in Chinese Power Inverters

This is a weird story: U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them, two people familiar with the matter said. … Over the past nine...

ChestyBot: Detecting and Disrupting Chinese Communist Party Influence Stratagems

Foreign information operations conducted by Russian and Chinese actors exploit the United States' permissive information environment. These campaigns threaten democratic institutions and the broader Westphalian model. Yet, existing detection and mitigation strategies often fail to identify active...

Tenda W20E formSetDebugCfg function enable parameter command injection vulnerability

The Tenda W20E is a router from the Chinese company Tenda. The Tenda W20E suffers from a command injection vulnerability that stems from the formSetDebugCfg function enable parameter failing to properly filter construct command special characters, commands, and so on. No detailed vulnerability...

An $8.4 Billion Chinese Hub for Crypto Crime Is Incorporated in Colorado

Before a crackdown by Telegram, Xinbi Guarantee grew into one of the internet’s biggest markets for Chinese-speaking crypto scammers and money laundering. And all registered to a US address...

Huawei HarmonyOS Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability

Huawei HarmonyOS is an operating system from the Chinese company Huawei. Huawei HarmonyOS suffers from an out-of-bounds read vulnerability, no details of the vulnerability are provided at this time...