Diplomatic missions under digital siege! Silk Typhoon hackers are hijacking web traffic with stealthy man-in-the-middle tactics and zero-day exploits to snatch sensitive intel. Can anyone stop this cyber invasion?
https://thedefendopsdiaries.com/silk-typhoon-hackers-a-persistent-threat-to-diplomatic-security/
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Xu Zewei and his co-defendant, PRC national Zhang Yu, are charged for their involvement in computer intrusions between February 2020 and June 2021, including the indiscriminate HAFNIUM computer intrusion campaign that compromised thousands of computers worldwide, including in the U.S.
Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the attempted extradition by the US of an alleged Chinese hacker of vaccine secrets who was arrested in Italy last week, and fast-fashion ecommerce company Shein’s plans to go public
United States announces arrest of a state-sponsored Chinese hacker in Italy linked to #HAFNIUM (Silk Typhoon) known for high-profile attacks on US infrastructure.
Read: https://hackread.com/us-arresting-chinese-hacker-linked-to-hafnium-group/
3/ lol so i guess whoever hacked america's core bank regulator (#OCC) was in the OCC's computer systems reading people's emails for most of a year
> "People familiar with the investigation told Bloomberg that the attackers had access to more email accts than previously thought and to around 100 bank regulators' emails."
Attribution for the source of the hack has not been made though article notes some vague similarities to other Chinese #SilkTyphoon operations.
"The Department of Justice has announced criminal charges against 12 Chinese government-linked hackers who are accused of hacking more than 100 American organizations, including the U.S. Treasury, over the course of a decade.
The charged individuals all played a “key role” in China’s hacker-for-hire ecosystem, a senior DOJ official said on a background call with reporters, including TechCrunch, on Wednesday. The official added that those charged, which includes contract hackers and Chinese law enforcement officials, targeted organizations in the U.S. and worldwide for the purposes of “suppressing free speech and religious freedoms.”
The DOJ also confirmed that two of the indicted individuals are linked to the China government-backed hacking group APT27, or Silk Typhoon."
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Microsoft Warns Of Chinese Hackers Spying On Cloud Technology #cybercrime #cybersecurity #databreaches #microsoft #silktyphoon
https://www.lowyat.net/2025/344718/microsoft-warns-of-chinese-hackers-spying-on-cloud-technology/
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