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Trying to curb the negatives of technology and increase the positives, China has passed a new law that will limit the time kids spend on video gameplay. No Video Games After 10 In The Night! According to a report by The New York Times, the new rule will lead to a limit of playing video […]
Fireye catches APT41 spying for the Chinese on Linux servers. State-sponsored espionage and surveillance activities have always been a crucial part of a government’s intelligence arm. In relation to this, Fireye Mandiant has discovered a malware termed MessageTap which is being used by China to monitor the text messages of certain high-value individuals. Developed by […]
The activities of government-sponsored hacker groups can have disastrous consequences. A group of digital forensics experts from ESET has revealed the existence of a new malware developed by Winnti, a hacking group backed by the Chinese government, with the purpose of gaining persistence in a targeted Microsoft SQL Server system. Identified as skip-2.0, this malware […]
Even security companies are exposed to cyberattacks. IT system audit specialists report that security software developer Avast has become victim of an attack on their internal networks. Through a statement, the Czech-based company mentioned that hackers most likely tried to inject malware into the CCleaner tool code, similar to the incident occurred a couple of […]
A report from web application security specialists claims that the company in charge of developing TeamViewer, the popular system remote control software, was a victim of hacking. According to the reports, attackers could control any computer that has logged into this service for perform arbitrary activities. The report reveals that TeamViewer was hacked in 2016, […]
Social protests and government attempts to disrupt them can have unexpected consequences in different areas, including on new technologies. Information security experts report that ATMs in Hong Kong are running out of cash due to the possibility of China’s government taking highly intrusive and authoritarian measures to stop recent demonstrations and prosecute those responsible for […]
Samsung has shut down its last smartphone manufacturing factories in China, according to a report from Reuters. The move is part of Samsung’s strategy to “re-allocate [production] to other global manufacturing sites” to control the expenditure. Samsung Shuts Down the Huizhou Factory The South Korean tech giant has decided to close down its factory in […]
Phishing is still one of the widely used strategies by cybercriminals and espionage groups to gain an initial foothold on the targeted systems. Though hacking someone with phishing attacks was easy a decade ago, the evolution of threat detection technologies and cyber awareness among people has slowed down the success of phishing and social engineering […]
China is already home to the world’s most efficient facial recognition system. Now, a new device has been added to their arsenal by Chinese scientists. They have invented an AI-enabled 500 megapixel cloud camera which is capable of capturing panoramic photos with highly detailed human faces in a stadium packed with thousands of people. It […]
A new project to reform Chinese extradition laws has caused millions of citizens in Hong Kong to take over the streets to demonstrate against Beijing’s plans. Despite mass protests, Chinese authorities are trying to identify movement leaders using various facial identification techniques, number phone tracking, among other methods. However, information security experts mention that demonstrators […]
Nepalese authorities managed to disrupt a complex hacking operation against some banking networks and ATMs in the country. According to experts in vulnerability testing, Zhu Lianang, a Chinese citizen who was caught trying to withdraw thousands of Nepalese rupees from an ATM using cloned debit cards, was arrested this weekend. After interrogating the arrested, a […]
The prime suspect of the DDoS attack is China. An online forum used by activists behind the ongoing Hong Kong protests has suffered a DDoS attack forcing its servers to go offline for a short period of time. The targeted website called LIHKG, is a popular platform in Hong Kong often referred to as Reddit’s […]
Google and Facebook are ultra-successful giants in their respective fields. Facebook has over 2.3 billion monthly active users and Google has around 2 billion. The search engine helps millions of people connect with businesses and interact with them. Facebook helps people around the world connect by letting them make profiles, post pictures, and videos, create […]
Many activists, researchers, and even some malicious users see Telegram as an option to establish much more secure communication channels than other options available in the instant messaging market like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger. According to information security specialists, even some social movements, such as the struggle for democracy in Hong Kong, have received a […]
Amazon Alexa, the virtual assistant that lives in Echo devices, has reached many homes in different parts of the world. But many Chinese schools-going teens are working at Foxconn factories overnight to manufacture the Echo devices and achieve that goal. An investigation (via The Guardian) done by China Labor Watch (CLW) accuses Foxconn of conducting […]
China is notorious for its invasive security and surveillance operations, but now it has taken things to another level. A report by Vice suggests that Chinese border guards are forcing tourists to install software, which is basically malware, on their phones. This software copies messaging, contacts, and scans the phones for thousands of different documents. […]
Network security specialists claim that a hacker group working for China’s Ministry of State Security hacked the networks of eight of the world’s largest technology service providers for the purpose of stealing confidential information and their business customers’ data. News agency Reuters has provided some details about this international hacking campaign, dubbed by experts as […]
According to network scurity specialists, a hacker group has entered the systems of at least a dozen mobile operators around the world and gained the ability to control networks without companies being able to intervene. Cybercriminals have reportedly been exploiting this access to steal confidential information for at least the last seven years, although, according […]
Cybereason, an Israeli-US security firm based in Boston, has reported that certain nation-state hackers managed to compromise the systems of no less than ten cellular carriers across the globe to steal metadata of specific users. Without naming anyone, the company claims that the targeted users and the attackers both belong to China. The campaign is […]
On Thursday, June 6th (9:43 am UTC), Europe’s leading mobile providers received a shock when a large chunk of the traffic destined to reach them was misdirected or rerouted to another path by the network of a Chinese state-operated telecom firm, China Telecom. The misdirection of the traffic continued for two hours and even more […]
Intelligence agencies and web application security experts claim that China may be behind the recent data breach incidents that have compromised the information of thousands of students, teachers, and administrative staff in some India, Australia and U.S. universities. Media from various countries reported that important members of China’s intelligence agencies have been deploying a hacking […]