Chinese intelligence threat actors are conducting cyberespionage campaigns targeting the Australian government and corporations involved with energy extraction in the South China Sea, researchers say. The campaign’s latest guise is posing as Australian online media in a bid to get victims to enable a web reconnaissance and exploitation framework dubbed ScanBox that is likely used […]
A Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) known as Gallium has been observed using a previously undocumented remote access trojan in its espionage attacks targeting companies operating in Southeast Asia, Europe, and Africa. Called PingPull, the “difficult-to-detect” backdoor is notable for its use of the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) for command-and-control (C2) communications, according to […]
The Chinese hackers responsible for an attack on media giant News Corp last month likely were seeking intelligence to serve China’s interests in a cyberespionage incident that shows the persistent vulnerability of corporate networks to email-based attacks, security professionals said. Reports on Monday revealed that a Jan. 20 incident at Rupert Murdoch’s media giant involved […]
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