There’s a new report of a nation-state attack, presumed to be from China, on a series of managed ISPs. From the executive summary: Since late 2016, PwC UK and BAE Systems have been assisting victims of a new cyber espionage campaign conducted by a China-based threat actor. We assess this threat actor to almost certainly … Read More “APT10 and Cloud Hopper” »
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This is pretty amazing: International customers and users of disposable or prepaid phones are the people most affected by the software. But the scope is unclear. The Chinese company that wrote the software, Shanghai Adups Technology Company, says its code runs on more than 700 million phones, cars and other smart devices. One American phone … Read More “Smartphone Secretly Sends Private Data to China” »
Good long article on the 2015 attack against the US Office of Personnel Management. Powered by WPeMatico
Yesterday’s DDoS attacks against Dyn are being reported everywhere. I have received a gazillion press requests, but I am traveling in Australia and Asia and have had to decline most of them. That’s okay, really, because we don’t know anything much of anything about the attacks. If I had to guess, though, I don’t think … Read More “DDoS Attacks against Dyn” »
This article on US/China cooperation and competition in cyberspace is an interesting lens through which to examine security policy. Powered by WPeMatico