Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming

Plus: Hackers use Meta’s AI bots to hack Instagram accounts, Anthropic helps NSA hackers, a decades-long GPS satellite mystery may have been solved, and more...

Five Eyes Warns Chinese Spies Are Using Fake Job Ads to Target Military Staff

Five Eyes warns that Chinese spies are using fake job ads on LinkedIn, Indeed, and Upwork to target military staff and steal sensitive data...

EUVD-2026-34159

OP-TEE is a Trusted Execution Environment TEE designed as companion to a non-secure Linux kernel running on Arm; Cortex-A cores using the TrustZone technology. Prior to version 4.11.0, on many of the ECDH shared secret paths, the public key isn't verified to be a point on the correct curve. By...

Q1 2026 Threat Landscape Report: Zero-clicks, geopolitical tensions, and some wins for law enforcement

The first quarter of 2026 reinforced that attackers are moving faster, operating with greater coordination, and exploiting weaknesses before most organizations can respond effectively. From escalating geopolitical tensions to increasingly aggressive ransomware operations, the latest quarterly...

From PDB strings to MaaS: Tracking a commodity BadIIS ecosystem used by Chinese-speaking threat

Cisco Talos has uncovered a BadIIS variant -- identifiable by its embedded "demo.pdb" strings -- that functions as commodity malware. This variant is likely sold or shared among multiple Chinese-speaking cybercrime groups that operate under a malware-as-a-service MaaS model for continuous...

Foxit PDF Reader和Foxit PDF Editor 资源管理错误漏洞

Foxit PDF Reader and Foxit PDF Editor are products of Foxit Corporation, a Chinese company. Foxit PDF Reader is a PDF reader. Foxit PDF Editor is a PDF editor. There is a resource management vulnerability in Foxit PDF Editor and Foxit PDF Reader. This vulnerability stems from a page lifecycle...

NASA Employees Duped in Chinese Phishing Scheme Targeting U.S. Defense Software

The Office of Inspector General OIG of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA has revealed how a Chinese national posed as a U.S. researcher as part of a spear-phishing campaign to obtain sensitive information from the space agency, as well as from government entities,...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Overfishing in the South Pacific

Regulation is hard: The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization SPRFMO oversees fishing across roughly 59 million square kilometers 22 million square miles of the South Pacific high seas, trying to impose order on a region double the size of Africa, where distant-water fleets...

Silver Fox Expands Asia Cyber Campaign with AtlasCross RAT and Fake Domains

Chinese-speaking users are the target of an active campaign that uses typosquatted domains impersonating trusted software brands to deliver a previously undocumented remote access trojan named AtlasCross RAT. "The operation covers VPN clients, encrypted messengers, video conferencing tools,...

CVE-2026-32614

Go ShangMi Commercial Cryptography Library GMSM is a cryptographic library that covers the Chinese commercial cryptographic public algorithms SM2/SM3/SM4/SM9/ZUC. Prior to 0.41.1, the current SM9 decryption implementation contains an infinity-point ciphertext forgery vulnerability. The root cause...

Web Server Exploits and Mimikatz Used in Attacks Targeting Asian Critical Infrastructure

High-value organizations located in South, Southeast, and East Asia have been targeted by a Chinese threat actor as part of a years-long campaign. The activity, which has targeted aviation, energy, government, law enforcement, pharmaceutical, technology, and telecommunications sectors, has been...

APT41-Linked Silver Dragon Targets Governments Using Cobalt Strike and Google Drive C2

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an advanced persistent threat APT group dubbed Silver Dragon that has been linked to cyber attacks targeting entities in Europe and Southeast Asia since at least mid-2024. "Silver Dragon gains its initial access by exploiting public-facing...

Anthropic Claims Chinese AI Firms ‘Distilled’ Claude to Train Their Models

Anthropic claims Chinese AI firms distilled Claude to train rival AI models, raising concerns about model extraction, security risks, and AI distillation abuse...

Anthropic Says Chinese AI Firms Used 16 Million Claude Queries to Copy Model

Anthropic on Monday said it identified "industrial-scale campaigns" mounted by three artificial intelligence AI companies, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax, to illegally extract Claude's capabilities to improve their own models. The distillation attacks generated over 16 million exchanges with...

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++ Users, You May Have Been Hacked by China

Suspected Chinese state-backed hackers hijacked the Notepad++ update infrastructure to deliver a backdoored version of the popular free source code editor and note-taking app for Windows...

Chinese Mustang Panda Used Fake Diplomatic Briefings to Spy on Officials

A new spy campaign by Mustang Panda uses fake US diplomatic briefings to target government officials. Discover how this silent surveillance operation works...

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...

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...