Foxit PDF Reader and Foxit PDF Editor Out-of-Bounds Reading Vulnerability

Foxit PDF Reader and Foxit PDF Editor are both products of Foxit Corporation, a Chinese company. Foxit PDF Reader is a PDF reader and Foxit PDF Editor is a PDF editor. Versions prior to 11.0.1 have a security vulnerability that can be exploited to allow out-of-bounds reading via util.scan...

Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF Denial of Service Vulnerability

Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF are both PDF document readers from Foxit, a Chinese company. Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF versions prior to 10.1.4 contain a security vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker to invoke the stack via a recursive function during the processing of XFA for...

UNC215: Spotlight on a Chinese Espionage Campaign in Israel

This blog post details the post-compromise tradecraft and operational tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs of a Chinese espionage group we track as UNC215. While UNC215’s targets are located throughout the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and North America, this report focuses on intrusion activity...

Experts Believe Chinese Hackers Are Behind Several Attacks Targeting Israel

A Chinese cyber espionage group has been linked to a string of intrusion activities targeting Israeli government institutions, IT providers, and telecommunications companies at least since 2019, with the hackers masquerading themselves as Iranian actors to mislead forensic analysis. FireEye's...

ZTE ZXHN H2640 后置链接漏洞

The ZTE ZXHN H2640 is a home gateway device from ZTE Corporation China.An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the ZTE ZXHN H2640, which stems from a configuration and other errors in the network system or product during operation. An unauthorized attacker could exploit the vulnerabilit...

Russian Federal Agencies Were Attacked With Chinese Webdav-O Virus

An amalgam of multiple state-sponsored threat groups from China may have been behind a string of targeted attacks against Russian federal executive authorities in 2020. The latest research, published by Singapore-headquartered company Group-IB, delves into a piece of computer virus called...

New Chinese Spyware Being Used in Widespread Cyber Espionage Attacks

A threat actor presumed to be of Chinese origin has been linked to a series of 10 attacks targeting Mongolia, Russia, Belarus, Canada, and the U.S. from January to July 2021 that involve the deployment of a remote access trojan RAT on infected systems, according to new research. The intrusions ha...

Huawei HarmonyOS Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2021-60508)

Huawei HarmonyOS is an operating system from Huawei, a Chinese company that provides a microkernel-based distributed operating system. Huawei HarmonyOS has a security vulnerability that can be exploited by local attackers to cause a kernel denial of service...

Chinese Hackers Target Major Southeast Asian Telecom Companies

Three distinct clusters of malicious activities operating on behalf of Chinese state interests have staged a series of attacks to target networks belonging to at least five major telecommunications companies located in Southeast Asian countries since 2017. "The goal of the attackers behind these...

Chinese Hackers Implant PlugX Variant on Compromised MS Exchange Servers

A Chinese cyberespionage group known for targeting Southeast Asia leveraged flaws in the Microsoft Exchange Server that came to light earlier this March to deploy a previously undocumented variant of a remote access trojan RAT on compromised systems. Attributing the intrusions to a threat actor...

Indictments, Attribution Unlikely to Deter Chinese Hacking

The federal government is fighting back against what it says are China-based cyberattacks against U.S. universities and companies with indictments and a “naming-and-shaming” approach — but researchers aren’t convinced the efforts will come to much in terms of deterring future activity. On Monday,...

Chinese Gas Pipeline Intrusion Campaign, 2011 to 2013

Summary This Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework, Version 9. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. Note: CISA released technical information, including indicators of compromise IOCs,...

U.S. Government Releases Indictment and Several Advisories Detailing Chinese Cyber Threat Activity

CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the National Security Agency NSA have observed increasingly sophisticated Chinese state-sponsored activity targeting U.S. political, economic, military, educational, and critical infrastructure personnel and organizations. In response: The White...

Chinese Hackers Exploited Latest SolarWinds 0-Day in Targeted Attacks

Microsoft on Tuesday disclosed that the latest string of attacks targeting SolarWinds Serv-U managed file transfer service with a now-patched remote code execution RCE exploit is the handiwork of a Chinese threat actor dubbed "DEV-0322." The revelation comes days after the Texas-based IT monitori...

Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF are both Chinese Foxit Foxit company a PDF document reader. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF, no details of the vulnerability are available at this time...

Hackers Spread BIOPASS Malware via Chinese Online Gambling Sites

Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a new malware that's striking online gambling companies in China via a watering hole attack to deploy either Cobalt Strike beacons or a previously undocumented Python-based backdoor called BIOPASS RAT that takes advantage of Open Broadcaster Software OB...

MetInfo SQL Injection Vulnerability (CNVD-2021-59068)

Metinfo is a content management system CMS developed using PHP and Mysql by China's Mito Metinfo. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in Metinfo 7.0, which can be exploited by attackers to access sensitive database information...

Ongoing Spearphishing Campaign Targets Afghan Gov’t

Chinese-speaking cyberespionage actors have targeted the Afghan government, using Dropbox for command-and-control C2 communications and going so far as to impersonate the Office of the President to infiltrate the Afghan National Security Council NSC, researchers have found. According to a report...

Microsoft Signed Malware That Spreads Through Gaming

Microsoft signed a driver being distributed within gaming environments that turned out to be a malicious network filter rootkit. G DATA malware analyst Karsten Hahn first noticed the rootkit, publicly posting the find on June 17 and simultaneously reaching out to Microsoft. Hahn noted that the co...

Huawei AnyOffice Product Deserialization Vulnerability

Huawei AnyOffice is a mobile office solution from Huawei, a Chinese company, and the Huawei AnyOffice product is vulnerable to a deserialization vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code on the system...