Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer

A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they can--although they have not yet done so--break 2048-bit RSA. This is something to take seriously. It might not be correct, but its not obviously wrong. We have long known from Shors algorithm that factoring with a quant...

RedZei Chinese Scammers Targeting Chinese Students in the U.K.

Chinese international students in the U.K. have been targeted by persistent Chinese-speaking scammers for over a year as part of an activity dubbed RedZei aka RedThief. "The RedZei fraudsters have chosen their targets carefully, researched them and realized it was a rich victim group that is ripe...

Friday Squid Blogging: Grounded Fishing Boat Carrying 16,000 Pounds of Squid

Rough seas are hampering efforts to salvage the boat: The Speranza Marie, carrying 16,000 pounds of squid and some 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel, hit the shoreline near Chinese Harbor at about 2 a.m. on Dec. 15. Six crew members were on board, and all were rescued without injury by another fishing...

D-Link DIR-846 Command Injection Vulnerability

D-Link DIR-846 is a wireless router from D-Link, a Chinese company. d-link DIR-846 A1FW100A43 has a security vulnerability that originates from the lan0dhcpsstaticlist parameter in the SetIpMacBindSettings function found to contain the command injection. No details of the vulnerability are...

2022 Top Five Immediate Threats in Geopolitical Context

As we are nearing the end of 2022, looking at the most concerning threats of this turbulent year in terms of testing numbers offers a threat-based perspective on what triggers cybersecurity teams to check how vulnerable they are to specific threats. These are the threats that were most tested to...

China-based MirrorFace APT group targeting Japanese Political Entities

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A Chinese-speaking APT group named MirrorFace has started its attacks by spearphishing campaign with LODEINFO backdoor, targeting Japanese political entities since June 29, 2022 and this campaign operatio...

Indiana sues TikTok, describes it as "Chinese Trojan Horse"

On Wednesday, the State of Indiana filed two lawsuits against TikTok, Inc, the company behind the same name app, and its parent company, ByteDance. The first suit alleges TikTok's 12+ rating on the Apple App Store and a "T" for "Teen" rating in the Google Play Store and the Microsoft Store are...

Tenda W30E Stack Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2023-18917)

Tenda W30E is a router from Tenda, a Chinese company. Tenda W30E is vulnerable to a stack overflow vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service...

Tenda W30E Stack Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2023-18919)

Tenda W30E is a router from Tenda, a Chinese company. Tenda W30E is vulnerable to a stack overflow vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service...

Tenda W6-S Command Injection Vulnerability

Tenda W6-S is a router from Tenda, a Chinese company. Tenda W6-S is vulnerable to command injection, which can be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the system...

Tenda W30E Stack Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2023-18920)

Tenda W30E is a router from Tenda, a Chinese company. Tenda W30E is vulnerable to a stack overflow vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service...

Tenda W6-S Stack Overflow Vulnerability

Tenda W6-S is a router from Tenda, a Chinese company. Tenda W6-S is vulnerable to a stack overflow vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service...

Tenda W30E Stack Overflow Vulnerability

Tenda W30E is a router from Tenda, a Chinese company. Tenda W30E is vulnerable to a stack overflow vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service...

Attackers Keep Targeting the US Electric Grid

Plus: Chinese hackers stealing US Covid relief funds, a cyberattack on the Met Opera website, and more...

CVE-2022-46154

Kodexplorer is a chinese language web based file manager and browser based code editor. Versions prior to 4.50 did not prevent unauthenticated users from requesting arbitrary files from the host OS file system. As a result any files available to the host process may be accessed by arbitrary users...

Input validation

Kodexplorer is a chinese language web based file manager and browser based code editor. Versions prior to 4.50 did not prevent unauthenticated users from requesting arbitrary files from the host OS file system. As a result any files available to the host process may be accessed by arbitrary users...

Chinese Hackers Target Middle East Telecoms in Latest Cyber Attacks

A malicious campaign targeting the Middle East is likely linked to BackdoorDiplomacy, an advanced persistent threat APT group with ties to China. The espionage activity, directed against a telecom company in the region, is said to have commenced on August 19, 2021 through the successful...

Tenda i22 formSetAutoPing function buffer overflow vulnerability

Tenda i22 is a wireless access point from Tenda, a Chinese company. Tenda i22 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability that stems from a lack of length validation of input data in the ping1 parameter of the formSetAutoPing function. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a...

Fedora: Security Advisory for librime (FEDORA-2022-18023b665f)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2022 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: librime-1.7.3-3.fc37

Rime Input Method Engine Library Support for shape-based and phonetic-based input methods, including those for Chinese dialects. A selected dictionary in Traditional Chinese, powered by opencc for Simplified Chinese output...