CVE-2026-20986

Path traversal in Samsung Members prior to Chinese version 15.5.05.4 allows local attackers to overwrite data within Samsung Members...

EUVD-2026-5389

Path traversal in Samsung Members prior to Chinese version 15.5.05.4 allows local attackers to overwrite data within Samsung Members...

CVE-2026-20986

Path traversal in Samsung Members prior to Chinese version 15.5.05.4 allows local attackers to overwrite data within Samsung Members...

CVE-2026-20986

Path traversal in Samsung Members prior to Chinese version 15.5.05.4 allows local attackers to overwrite data within Samsung Members...

Notepad++ Updates Delivered Malware After Hosting Provider Breach

A months-long breach allowed Chinese State-sponsored hackers to hijack Notepad++ updates in 2025, exposing users to malware via a compromised hosting provider...

[SECURITY] Fedora 42 Update: opencc-1.1.9-2.fc42

OpenCC is a library for converting characters and phrases between Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese...

[SECURITY] Fedora 43 Update: opencc-1.1.9-5.fc43

OpenCC is a library for converting characters and phrases between Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese...

US Sentences Chinese National for Role in $36.9 Million Crypto Scam

A Chinese national has been sentenced for his role in a massive $36.9 million cryptocurrency scam operated from…...

CVE-2026-23965

sm-crypto provides JavaScript implementations of the Chinese cryptographic algorithms SM2, SM3, and SM4. A signature forgery vulnerability exists in the SM2 signature verification logic of sm-crypto prior to version 0.4.0. Under default configurations, an attacker can forge valid signatures for...

CVE-2026-23966

CVE-2026-23966 (sm-crypto) affects the JavaScript library implementing SM2/SM3/SM4. The vulnerability resides in the SM2 decryption logic, where an attacker can recover the private key by repeatedly invoking the SM2 decryption interface. The issue exists in versions prior to 0.3.14; version 0.3.1...

EUVD-2026-3674

sm-crypto provides JavaScript implementations of the Chinese cryptographic algorithms SM2, SM3, and SM4. A signature forgery vulnerability exists in the SM2 signature verification logic of sm-crypto prior to version 0.4.0. Under default configurations, an attacker can forge valid signatures for...

VoidLink Linux Malware Framework Built with AI Assistance Reaches 88,000 Lines of Code

The recently discovered sophisticated Linux malware framework known as VoidLink is assessed to have been developed by a single person with assistance from an artificial intelligence AI model. That's according to new findings from Check Point Research, which identified operational security blunder...

Open Chinese Convert has Out-of-bounds Write

A weakness has been identified in BYVoid OpenCC up to 1.1.9. This vulnerability affects the function opencc::MaxMatchSegmentation of the file src/MaxMatchSegmentation.cpp. This manipulation causes heap-based buffer overflow. The attack is restricted to local execution. The exploit has been made...

GHSA-5PR6-CRVP-2J9F Open Chinese Convert has Out-of-bounds Write

A weakness has been identified in BYVoid OpenCC up to 1.1.9. This vulnerability affects the function opencc::MaxMatchSegmentation of the file src/MaxMatchSegmentation.cpp. This manipulation causes heap-based buffer overflow. The attack is restricted to local execution. The exploit has been made...

Open Chinese Convert security vulnerability

Open Chinese Convert is a conversion software for traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese developed by Carbo Kuo. Versions of BYVoid OpenCC 1.1.9 and earlier contained security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stemmed from a heap buffer overflow in the opencc::MaxMatchSegmentation functi...

Friday Squid Blogging: The Chinese Squid-Fishing Fleet off the Argentine Coast

The latest article on this topic. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy...

China-Linked Hackers Exploit VMware ESXi Zero-Days to Escape Virtual Machines

Chinese-speaking threat actors are suspected to have leveraged a compromised SonicWall VPN appliance as an initial access vector to deploy a VMware ESXi exploit that may have been developed as far back as February 2024. Cybersecurity firm Huntress, which observed the activity in December 2025 and...

Fake WinRAR downloads hide malware behind a real installer

A member of our web research team pointed me to a fake WinRAR installer that was linked from various Chinese websites. When these links start to show up, that’s usually a good indicator of a new campaign. So, I downloaded the file and started an analysis, which turned out to be something of a...

Telegram Hosting World’s Largest Darknet Market

Wired is reporting on Chinese darknet markets on Telegram. The ecosystem of marketplaces for Chinese-speaking crypto scammers hosted on the messaging service Telegram have now grown to be bigger than ever before, according to a new analysis from the crypto tracing firm Elliptic. Despite a brief...

DarkSpectre Browser Extension Campaigns Exposed After Impacting 8.8 Million Users Worldwide

The threat actor behind two malicious browser extension campaigns, ShadyPanda and GhostPoster, has been attributed to a third attack campaign codenamed DarkSpectre that has impacted 2.2 million users of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox. The activity is assessed to be the work of...