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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the indictment of a 38-year-old Chinese national and a California resident for allegedly stealing proprietary information from Google while covertly working for two China-based tech companies. Linwei Ding (aka Leon Ding), a former Google engineer who was arrested on March 6, 2024, “transferred sensitive Google trade secrets and […]
Popular video-sharing platform TikTok on Tuesday agreed to pause a controversial privacy policy update that could have allowed it to serve targeted ads based on users’ activity on the social video platform without their permission to do so. The reversal, reported by TechCrunch, comes a day after the Italian data protection authority — the Garante […]
Systems hosting content pertaining to the National Games of China were successfully breached last year by an unnamed Chinese-language-speaking hacking group. Cybersecurity firm Avast, which dissected the intrusion, said that the attackers gained access to a web server 12 days prior to the start of the event on September 3 to drop multiple reverse web […]
Dubbed Nickel by Microsoft; the group of Chinese hackers was actively using the websites for intelligence gathering from thanks tanks, human rights organizations, and government agencies in 29 countries. The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit disrupted the activities of a hacking group based in China after a federal court allowed the company to seize the websites […]
In total, researchers have identified around 190 malware-infected games, some of which were designed to specifically target Russian users, whereas some targeted Chinese and foreign users. Researchers from Doctor Web have shared details of a mobile campaign that infected at least 9.3 million Android devices. Reportedly, a new class of malware was used in this campaign, […]
Russian cybercrime and hacking forums are opening doors to Chinese and English-speaking threat actors, which so far had been a relatively restricted domain for them. Researchers at threat intelligence firm Flashpoint have observed a spike in activities of Chinese origin and Mandarin-speaking hackers on RAMP, a Russian-language ransomware forum, and other illegal communities on the […]
The Quickfox VPN is mainly used by Chinese citizens living abroad who need to access Chinese websites as most of these sites are geo-restricted. Wizcase’s team of ethical researchers, led by Ata Hakcil, discovered a “critical leak” that the researchers found to be exposing personally identifiable information of at least one million users of a […]
Tianfu Cup is the Chinese version of the Pwn2own in which hackers from Kunlun Lab managed to secure first place by hacking iPhone 13 through a vulnerability in the Safari mobile browser. The Chinese version of the Pwn2own hacking competition called Tianfu Cup took place from Oct. 16 to Oct. 17 in Chengdu, China. The […]
State-backed hackers have been constantly exploiting vulnerabilities in VPNs to breach critical cyberinfrastructure in the United States, agencies have warned. The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have published guidelines to secure virtual private networks (VPNs). The guidelines came after the departments noticed a rise […]
Lithuania’s Defense Ministry has released a warning, urging consumers to get rid of their Chinese phones and not to buy new ones. This warning comes in response to Lithuanian cybersecurity researchers identifying several security flaws and censorship-related loopholes in certain Chinese-made smartphones. Hackread.com has learned that researchers tested 5G mobiles from different Chinese mobile makers, […]
EskyFun stored a trove of gamers’ data on an Elastricsearch server that was exposed to the public without any security authentication. The research team at vpnMentor reported an error on the part of famous Chinese Android game developer EskyFun that leaked sensitive data of at least one million online gamers. Reportedly, EskyFun used an unsecured Elasticsearch […]
Microsoft acknowledged the incident and currently investigating the issue but at the same time downplaying its impact. In recent news, it has been found that Microsoft signed off a third-party driver, Netfilter, for Windows that contains rootkit malware and has been circulating mainly amongst the gaming community. This was first found out by Karsten Hahn, […]
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has issued new stricter vulnerability disclosure regulations that mandate software and networking vendors affected with critical flaws to mandatorily disclose them first-hand to the government authorities within two days of filing a report. The “Regulations on the Management of Network Product Security Vulnerability” are expected to go into effect […]
Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a new malware that’s striking online gambling companies in China via a watering hole attack to deploy either Cobalt Strike beacons or a previously undocumented Python-based backdoor called BIOPASS RAT that takes advantage of Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio’s live-streaming app to capture the screen of its victims. The attack […]
The database contained 7GB worth of data including fake Amazon product reviews and PayPal email addresses of scammers among other sensitive data. Whoever uses Amazon makes up their mind about a particular product after checking out its reviews. But what if the reviews are fake and misleading? The IT security researchers at SafetyDetectives discovered a China-based […]
China is greatly disturbed by the ongoing pro-democracy, anti-Beijing protests in Hong Kong and has been targeting all the digital forums protestors are using to organize protests. One of the favored tactics of the Chinese government is of launching a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attacks). In September this year, HackRead reported that LIHKG, an online […]
Recently, it has been discovered that SMA-WATCH-M2, a smartwatch featuring a GPS tracker manufactured by a Chinese firm named Shenzhen Smart Care Technology has been found vulnerable in terms of data and location data and location security SMA-WATCH-M2 smartwatch Researchers at the IoT laboratory from the AV-TEST Institute revealed that the data of as much […]
The government of China is about to bring about rules that will make it a criminal offense to post a deepfake video or fake news without proper disclosure or label. According to a Reuters report, the new law will come into effect from January 1, 2020. It tries to tackle the problem of misinformation in […]
Currently any company is exposed to computer security incidents. This time, web application security experts report that OnePlus, a smartphone manufacturer based in China, has suffered a data breach that led to the exposure of some personal details of its customers. Through a statement, the company mentioned that “an unauthorized actor accessed the information of […]
The research particularly names India, China, and Kazakhstan for using Internet censorship as a tool to curb freedom of expression and how the new AI tool can help people in these countries to evade censorship. Internet censorship, basically, is a very effective strategy used by dictatorial governments to limit access to information available online for […]
According to reports from ethical hacking specialists, Chinese authorities managed to resolve more than 45,000 cybercrime cases, as well as arresting more than 60,000 suspects related to these crimes during the first 10 months of this year, all as part of a campaign to eradicate Internet crimes in China. More than 50% of crimes investigated […]