Silver Fox APT Targets Taiwan with Complex Gh0stCringe and HoldingHands RAT Malware

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a new phishing campaign that's targeting users in Taiwan with malware families such as HoldingHands RAT and Gh0stCringe. The activity is part of a broader campaign that delivered the Winos 4.0 malware framework earlier this January by sending phishing...

Soar Cloud System Soar Cloud HRD Human Resource Management System 安全漏洞

Soar Cloud System Soar Cloud HRD Human Resource Management System is a human resource management system from Soar Cloud System, Inc. of Taiwan, China. A security vulnerability exists in Soar Cloud System Soar Cloud HRD Human Resource Management System version 7.3.2025.0408 and prior versions, whi...

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-2023-22362

SUSHIRO App for Android outputs sensitive information to the log file, which may result in an attacker obtaining a credential information from the log file. Affected products/versions are as follows: SUSHIRO Ver.4.0.31, Thailand SUSHIRO Ver.1.0.0, Hong Kong SUSHIRO Ver.3.0.2, Singapore SUSHIRO...

Earth Ammit Breached Drone Supply Chains via ERP in VENOM, TIDRONE Campaigns

A cyber espionage group known as Earth Ammit has been linked to two related but distinct campaigns from 2023 to 2024 targeting various entities in Taiwan and South Korea, including military, satellite, heavy industry, media, technology, software services, and healthcare sectors. Cybersecurity fir...

MirrorFace Targets Japan and Taiwan with ROAMINGMOUSE and Upgraded ANEL Malware

The nation-state threat actor known as MirrorFace has been observed deploying malware dubbed ROAMINGMOUSE as part of a cyber espionage campaign directed against government agencies and public institutions in Japan and Taiwan. The activity, detected by Trend Micro in March 2025, involved the use o...

Earth Kasha Updates TTPs in Latest Campaign Targeting Taiwan and Japan

This blog discusses the latest modifications observed in Earth Kasha’s TTPs from their latest campaign detected in March 2025 targeting Taiwan and Japan...

Earth Kurma Targets Southeast Asia With Rootkits and Cloud-Based Data Theft Tools

Government and telecommunications sectors in Southeast Asia have become the target of a "sophisticated" campaign undertaken by a new advanced persistent threat APT group called Earth Kurma since June 2024. The attacks, per Trend Micro, have leveraged custom malware, rootkits, and cloud storage...

CrazyHunter Campaign Targets Taiwanese Critical Sectors

This blog entry details research on emerging ransomware group CrazyHunter, which has launched a sophisticated campaign aimed at Taiwan's essential services...

China Sort of Admits to Being Behind Volt Typhoon

The Wall Street Journal has the story: Chinese officials acknowledged in a secret December meeting that Beijing was behind a widespread series of alarming cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure, according to people familiar with the matter, underscoring how hostilities between the two superpowers ar...

UAT-5918 targets critical infrastructure entities in Taiwan

By Jung soo An, Asheer Malhotra, Brandon White, and Vitor Ventura. Cisco Talos discovered a malicious campaign we track under the UAT-5918 umbrella that has been active since at least 2023. UAT-5918, a threat actor believed to be motivated by establishing long-term access for information theft,...

postgresql: PostgreSQL quoting APIs miss neutralizing quoting syntax in text that fails encoding validation

A flaw was found in PostgreSQL. Due to improper neutralization of quoting syntax, affected versions potentially allow a database input provider to achieve SQL injection in certain usage patterns. Specifically, SQL injection requires the application to use the affected function's result to constru...

Hackers Impersonate Taiwan’s Tax Authority to Deploy Winos 4.0 Malware

FortiGuard Labs discovers Winos 4.0 malware targeting Taiwan via phishing. Learn how this advanced threat steals data and…...

D-Link DSL-3782 Multiple Parameter Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The D-Link DSL-3782 is a wireless router from Taiwan, China-based D-Link. The D-Link DSL-3782 suffers from a buffer overflow vulnerability that originates in the destination, netmask, and gateway parameters, which can be exploited by an attacker to cause a denial of service...

Taiwan Bans DeepSeek AI Over National Security Concerns, Citing Data Leakage Risks

Taiwan has become the latest country to ban government agencies from using Chinese startup DeepSeek's Artificial Intelligence AI platform, citing security risks. "Government agencies and critical infrastructure should not use DeepSeek, because it endangers national information security," accordin...

Cache-based Side-Channel Attack Against SEV

AMD ID: AMD-SB-3010 Potential Impact: N/A Severity: N/A Summary AMD has received a report from researchers at National Taiwan University detailing cache-based side-channel attacks against Secure Encrypted Virtualization SEV. 2025-06-03 Update: A subsequent report of the same attacks was received...

Cert CC: CVE-2024-7344 Howyar Taiwan Secure Boot Bypass

This CVE was assigned by CERT CC. The purpose of this document is to attest to the fact that the products listed in the Security Updates table have been updated to protect against this vulnerability...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid on Pizza

Pizza Hut in Taiwan has a history of weird pizzas, including a "2022 scalloped pizza with Oreos around the edge, and deep-fried chicken and calamari studded throughout the middle." Blog moderation policy...

New Phishing Kit Xiū gǒu Targets Users Across Five Countries With 2,000 Fake Sites

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new phishing kit that has been put to use in campaigns targeting Australia, Japan, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S. since at least September 2024. Netcraft said more than 2,000 phishing websites have been identified the kit, known as Xiū gǒu, with the...

Threat actors use copyright infringement phishing lure to deploy infostealers

Cisco Talos has observed an unknown threat actor conducting a phishing campaign targeting Facebook business and advertising account users in Taiwan. The decoy email and fake PDF filenames are designed to impersonate a company's legal department, attempting to lure the victim into downloading and...