More stringent data collection rules went into effect in China at the beginning of May. The government continued to show that it is serious about its regulatory stance by sweeping up 33 mobile apps.
Botnet discovered by Chinese researchers introduced a backdoor and a web shell on compromised AT&T VoIP servers, mostly in the US, for DDoS attacks and data exfiltration.
Researchers at Shanghai University used the D-Wave quantum computer to demonstrate decryption of a working RSA public key. The incident does demonstrate that the timeline to crack encryption that is not quantum-resistant, something that many feel is still at least 10 years off, may be shorter than expected.
Pinduoduo, a popular Chinese shopping app has been suspended from the Google Play Store after traces of malware were found in the code of previous app versions. Suspected purpose was to pore through user data and find information related to competing shopping apps.
Chinese spies known as Buckeye group are alleged to be using some of the NSA cyber weapons as early as March 2016, long before Shadow Brokers released them in April 2017.
A Chinese startup leaked information of more than 214 million social media users obtained through data scraping, including private information not provided on social profiles.
For the most part the exposure appears to have been limited to names and bank details for both active members of the UK armed forces and veterans. The UK government has named SSCL, a business services provider, as the source of the third party breach.
Though circumventing Apple’s new privacy rules with fingerprinting techniques can get one banned from the app store, major Chinese tech companies appear to be discussing just that out in the open.
Auction house Christie’s is currently notifying customers of a significant data breach after the RansomHub ransomware group threatened to leak the stolen sensitive personal information.
New insight into a domestic data collection program run by the CIA indicates even more mass surveillance may have taken place, and some senators are demanding answers.
