Enlarge / Aerial photo taken at night shows the TSMC plant area in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. reader comments 45 with The US Commerce Department announced today that key foreign chipmakers can continue receiving critical US chipmaking tools at China-based plants, Reuters reported. This decision extends special authorizations that were granted to foreign chipmakers—including South Korea’s ..
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Taiwan authorities are investigating four Taiwan-based companies suspected of helping China’s Huawei Technologies to build semiconductor facilities. Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua said Friday that the investigation will determine if the companies have violated regulations prohibiting sales of sensitive technologies and equipment to China. The Ministry of Economic Affairs summoned the semiconductor and factory ..
Chinese state-sponsored threat groups have targeted telecommunications, financial and government organizations in Africa in support of Beijing’s soft power agenda in the region, according to SentinelOne. Earlier this year, SentinelOne reported seeing a Chinese cyberespionage group targeting telecoms providers in the Middle East as part of an operation dubbed Tainted Love. The cybersecurity firm revealed ..
China said Wednesday it was following media reports about suspected security issues with iPhones but insisted there was no ban on its officials using the devices, as technology tensions simmer between Beijing and Western rivals. The Wall Street Journal previously reported that China had prohibited officials at central government agencies from using iPhones, and Bloomberg later reported that Beijing ..
Symantec has identified a new advanced persistent threat (APT) actor that appears to be focusing exclusively on targeting critical national infrastructure organizations. Dubbed Redfly, the threat actor has been observed using the ShadowPad remote access trojan (RAT), a successor of Korplug/PlugX, to maintain presence on a compromised national power grid in Asia for as long ..
A cyberespionage group possibly linked to China has targeted government-related organizations and technology companies in various parts of the world. Trend Micro, which tracks it as Earth Estries, says the group has been around since at least 2020. While the cybersecurity firm has not directly attributed Earth Estries to any particular country, it did point ..
The Chinese cyberespionage group exploiting Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances was preparing for remediation efforts, deploying persistent backdoors on select targets, Mandiant reports. Tracked as UNC4841 and believed to be working on behalf of the Chinese government, the hacking group is believed to have exploited CVE-2023-2868, a zero-day vulnerability in Barracuda ESG, since at ..
Threat hunters at Microsoft have caught a Chinese government-backed APT actor hacking into organizations in Taiwan with minimal use of malware and maintaining stealthy persistence by abusing legitimate software tools. The cyberespionage operation, tagged with the moniker Flax Typhoon, hacks into organizations by exploiting known vulnerabilities in public-facing servers and then using legitimate tools built ..
reader comments 38 with Over the next few months, Montana must prove that it has the power to do what the federal government has so far only tried and failed to do: ban TikTok. While TikTok and several state-based app users have claimed that the state’s TikTok ban is unconstitutional and improperly attempts to regulate ..
A newly discovered advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been observed deploying the PlugX backdoor via a supply chain attack, mainly targeting organizations in Hong Kong, Symantec reports. Dubbed Carderbee, the adversary was seen abusing the legitimate Cobra DocGuard software, which helps users protect, encrypt, and decrypt applications. The tool is developed by EsafeNet, which ..