Chinese Cyber Espionage Group Steals SMS Messages …

APT41’s new campaign is latest to highlight trend by Chinese threat groups to attack upstream service providers as a way to reach its intended targets, FireEye says. APT41, a Chinese hacking group known for its prolific state-sponsored espionage campaigns, has begun targeting telecommunications companies with new malware designed to monitor and save SMS traffic from
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Chinese Group Built Advanced Trojan by Reverse …

APT3 quietly monitored an NSA attack on its systems and used the information to build a weapon of its own. Chinese threat actor APT3 quietly monitored the US National Security Agency’s use of a highly sophisticated cyber attack tool and then reverse engineered the code to build an advanced Trojan of its own called Bemstour.
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US DoJ Indicts Chinese Man for Anthem Breach

Fujie Wang allegedly worked as part of a hacking team out of China that stole information on nearly 80 million Americans in the massive healthcare breach. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) today unsealed an indictment of a Chinese national who allegedly was part of a hacking group in China behind the massive 2015 data
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How a Chinese Nation-State Group Reverse-Engineered …

New Symantec research shows how the Buckeye group captured an exploit and backdoor used by the National Security Agency and deployed them on other victims. A Chinese hacking group obtained access to an exploit and backdoor used by US intelligence – not by stealing the code, but apparently just by being a vigilant defender when
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Chinese National Carries Malware Into Mar-a-Lago

A Chinese woman arrested for entering the grounds of Mar-a-Lago under false pretenses was carrying electronic equipment holding malware. Chinese national Yujing Zhang was arrested for breaching the perimeter at the Mar-a-Lago golf club in Florida and telling the US Secret Service she was there to attend a nonexistent event. While the details of her
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