A Chinese hacker allegedly belonging to Silk Typhoon, the state-sponsored Chinese hacking group behind the Microsoft Exchange Server attacks of 2021 among other major actions, was picked up in Milan on July 3 on a US arrest warrant.
Advisory warns that state-backed Chinese hackers have deep penetration into "major" US telcos, and are getting in by compromising an assortment of networking equipment and routers.
A recent breach of the US Treasury yielded access to Secretary Janet Yellen's computer along with those of two of her lieutenants, according to inside sources speaking to Bloomberg News reporters.
Hackers used sophisticated techniques and leveraged a commercial internet service provider vendor’s infrastructure to breach FBI surveillance systems, something both Chinese and Russian state-backed threat actors are notorious for doing. It is unclear at this point which of the numerous Chinese hacking groups may have been involved with the security breach.
State-sponsored hackers have exploited two Ivanti zero-days to compromise over 1,700 ICS VPN appliances, cybersecurity firm Volexity has found.
Amnesty International Canada experienced a security breach on October 5 with the ultimate conclusion being that state-sponsored Chinese hackers penetrated the system for espionage purposes.
Chinese hackers linked to the advanced persistent threat actor UNC6508 breached North American research facilities via web applications and evaded detection for over a year.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says that Chinese hackers breached three computers in the New York subway via Ivanti’s Pulse Connect Secure VPN critical vulnerabilities.
Chinese hackers infiltrated Vatican's computer networks ahead of the high-profile talks between the Catholic Church and the Chinese government on the operations of the Church in China.
Security researchers believe that Chinese hackers are to blame for the attack in part because of the "selective" nature of the targets that were chosen for follow-on compromise via malicious software updates. Notepad++ is a free and broadly popular piece of software that is thought to have tens of millions of users worldwide.
