Russia and China Use Data Received From Hackers to ID U.S. Spies
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The New American ^
| September 1, 2015 | Warren Mass
Both Russian and Chinese government security agencies have compiled data obtained from hackers who breached security protecting U.S. computer databases containing security clearance applications, airline records, and medical insurance forms, and then used the data to identify U.S. intelligence officers and agents. As
a result of cyberattacks, at least one clandestine network of American engineers and scientists who provide technical assistance to U.S. undercover operatives and agents overseas has been compromised, according to two U.S. officials. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, revealed the security breach to the Los Angeles Times, which broke the story on August 31. The...
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China Launches Quantum Satellite That Could Banish Hackers
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Sky News ^
The world's second-largest economy aims to use the power of particle physics through photons to send the encryption keys necessary to decode information. The
launch of Micius - named after a 5th Century BC Chinese scientist - took place in the early hours of Tuesday in the southwestern Gobi Desert, according to Xinhua, China's state news service. It will be used in experiments aimed at proving the viability of quantum technology to communicate over long distances. Unlike traditional secure communication methods, it is impossible to intercept the data held in the bursts of subatomic particles because any attempts at eavesdropping...
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China-backed hackers may have infiltrated Apple's iCloud
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Yahoo / Reuters ^
| 10-21-2014
Apple Inc's iCloud storage and backup service in China was attacked by hackers trying to steal user credentials, a Chinese web monitoring group said, adding that it believes the country's government is behind the campaign. Using
a method called a "man-in-the-middle" (MITM) attack, unknown hackers interposed their own website between users and Apple's iCloud server, intercepting data and potentially gaining access to passwords, iMessages, photos and contacts, Greatfire.org wrote in its blog post. Greatfire.org, a group that conducts research on Chinese Internet censorship, alleged government involvement in the attack, saying it resembled previous attacks on Google Inc, Yahoo Inc and...
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Chinese hackers breached US ambassador to China’s email account
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cnn ^
| 7-20-23 | Sean Lyngaas and Kylie Atwood
China-based hackers breached the email account of US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns as part of a recent targeted intelligence-gathering campaign, three US officials familiar with the matter told CNN. The hackers also accessed the email account of Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of State for East Asia, who recently traveled with
Secretary of State Antony Blinken to China, the people said. The news, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, adds to the fallout for the US of the alleged Chinese hack first revealed last week. The hackers also infiltrated the emails of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, CNN previously...
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Hackers break into more than 20 million accounts on China's largest marketpla
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Mashable ^
| 02/04/2016 | Victoria Ho
One of China's largest web companies suffered a massive hacking attack last year, its owner said Thursday. Hackers managed to gain access to 20.59 million user accounts on Taobao. The attack on China's largest marketplace happened in October last year, where criminals managed to obtain a database of 99 million usernames and
passwords for Taobao, according to Reuters. Taobao is the 12th most popular site in the world, and ranks third in China. It has an estimated 265 million registered users, and is China's equivalent of eBay.
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Huawei: China's State Hackers 'Rigging 5G Tests' Against Nokia And Ericsson
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Forbes ^
| 6/1/2019 | Zak Doffman C
Now, a story in the Sunday Telegraph is just the latest to pose serious questions. The
newspaper reports that China has been "rigging" 5G equipment testing to discredit Huawei's rivals, including Nokia and Ericsson. According to government and industry sources, "Beijing is feeding secret details of security vulnerabilities" to the testers to tip the balance in Huawei's favor. The testing encompasses "hacking techniques used to check for weak spots... vulnerabilities discovered by China’s secret state hackers have been passed to the 5G testers to ensure Nokia and Ericsson’s equipment is found to be insecure." Huawei's security issues have always been...
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China-Linked Hackers Used VPN Flaw to Target US Defense Industry: Researchers
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Reuters via Epoch Times ^
| 04/21/2021
WASHINGTON—At least two groups of China-linked hackers have spent months using a previously undisclosed vulnerability in virtual private networking devices to spy on the U.S. defense industry, researchers and the devices’ manufacturer said. Utah-based
IT company Ivanti said in a statement on April 20 the hackers took advantage of the flaw in its Pulse Connect Secure suite to break into the systems of “a very limited number of customers.” Ivanti said that while mitigations are in place, a fix for the issue would be unavailable until early May. Ivanti provided no details about who might be responsible for the espionage...
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Exclusive: China-backed hackers 'targeted COVID-19 vaccine firm Moderna'
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reuters.com ^
| July 30, 2020 | Christopher Bing, Marisa Taylor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chinese government-linked hackers targeted biotech company Moderna Inc, a U.S.-based coronavirus vaccine research developer, this year in a bid to steal data, according to a U.S. security official tracking Chinese hacking.China on Friday rejected the accusation that hackers linked to it had targeted Moderna.Last week, the U.S. Justice Department
made public an indictment of two Chinese nationals accused of spying on the United States, including three unnamed U.S.-based targets involved in medical research to fight the novel coronavirus.The indictment said the Chinese hackers “conducted reconnaissance” against the computer network of a Massachusetts biotech firm known to be...
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Pro-Russian hackers allege "massive” cyberattack on Western financial system; led by Medibank hackers (SWIFT also a target)
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Proactive Investors ^
| 6/15/23 | Ephrem Joseph
Pro-Russian hacking outfits Killnet, REevil and Anonymous Sudan have allegedly formed an alliance to launch a concerted cyberattack on the Western financial system, particularly targeting the SWIFT wire transfer system, according to CyberKnow.Forged in the underground hacking forums, the groups stated their “no money – no weapons – no Kiev regime” formula
to cut off the pipeline of Western aid to Ukraine.Their primary target is the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) system, which powers most international money and security transfers, failure of which could potentially cripple the Western financial system.Other targets in their crosshairs include European and US...
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China-Based Hackers Impersonated US Voters With AI-generated Propaganda During 2022 Elections: Microsoft
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Epoch Times ^
| 9/7/23 | Andrew Thornebrooke
China-based hackers impersonated American voters online and used artificial intelligence (AI) to create and promote divisive online content during the 2022 midterm elections, according to a report by Microsoft. The effort was part of a series of covert influence operations by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intended to mimic U.S. voters from
across the political spectrum and create controversy along racial, economic, and ideological lines, according to the Sept. 7 report. “Ahead of the 2022 U.S. midterms, Microsoft and industry partners observed CCP-affiliated social media accounts impersonating U.S. voters—new territory for CCP-affiliated [influence operations],” the report reads.
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The Cyber Threat: Obama Policies Toward Hackers From China, Iran, Syria Produce Few Results
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freebeacon ^
| May 9, 2016 | Bill Gertz
President uses symbolic indictments, diplomacy to avoid more forceful action Recent federal indictments of Iranians and Syrians for cyber attacks on U.S. networks further highlight the failure of President Obama and his administration to counter the growing threat of foreign hacker strikes on American networks. In
March, the Justice Department indicted two groups of hackers, one from Iran linked to cyber intrusions of an industrial control system operating a New York dam, and a second from Syria engaged in illegal activities that included causing damage to computers and extortion. The indictments are largely symbolic, since none of the Iranians or...
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Seven Hackers Associated with Chinese Government Charged with Computer Intrusions Targeting Perceived Critics of China and U.S. Businesses and Politicians
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justice.gov ^
| March 25, 2024 | Office of Public Affairs
Defendants Operated as Part of the APT31 Hacking Group in Support of China’s Ministry of State Security’s Transnational Repression, Economic Espionage and Foreign Intelligence ObjectivesView the indictment here.An indictment was unsealed today charging seven nationals of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with conspiracy to commit computer intrusions and conspiracy to commit
wire fraud for their involvement in a PRC-based hacking group that spent approximately 14 years targeting U.S. and foreign critics, businesses, and political officials in furtherance of the PRC’s economic espionage and foreign intelligence objectives.The defendants are Ni Gaobin (倪高彬), 38; Weng Ming (翁明), 37; Cheng Feng (程锋),...
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SSA.GOV - A Hackers Tool
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LinkedIn.com ^
| Jun 2, 2015 | Timothy Martens
The ssa.gov website is vulnerable in several ways, and when it comes to identity thief's no one is a better friend or more helpful with validating data or filling in the blanks or even stealing complete Social Security Account Numbers. Social Security Account Numbers are said to be the Holy Grail of
identity theft. Stealing Social Security Numbers Hackers may easily steal Social Security Account Numbers from the Social Security Administration's website ssa.gov making Everyone who has ever been issued a Social Security Account Number vulnerable to identity theft should hackers choose to use this attack vector. This vulnerability is...
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IRS still vulnerable to hackers: GAO
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The Washington Times ^
| March 28, 2016 | Stephan Dinan
The IRS’s computers remain vulnerable to hackers, the government’s top auditor said Monday, saying changes were still needed months after the agency suffered a breach that saw hundreds of thousands of taxpayers’ most sensitive information stolen. Passwords
to key agency systems “could be easily guessed,” and investigators from the Government Accountability Office found the IRS didn’t require regular password changes — an important part of modern cybersecurity. The tax agency also failed to load the latest security patches, ran obsolete software on systems, and granted some employees access — both physical and electronic — to systems they didn’t need to...
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Vanity, Hackers
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me
IMOP they are imbedded and in place or have mapped their routes to say hi at a later time...Not a techie but just MOP Any thoughts?
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What’s Safer From Hackers: A PC or a Mac?
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Yahoo! ^
| August 7, 2015 | Sean Captain
Apple’s vaunted reputation for safety and security has taken some hits recently. Just
this week came news of DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE — a bug in Apple’s OS X operating system that has allowed a malicious program to take complete control of Macs. *snip* When it comes to security flaws, Windows and OS X are now about tied, says Morey Haber, VP of technology at corporate security software maker BeyondTrust.
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'ISIS Hackers' Almost Certainly Not ISIS Hackers
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NBC News ^
| M. ALEX JOHNSON
The hacking of dozens of websites worldwide by someone purporting to be connected to the ISIS terror group — including a Montana credit union, an Irish rape crisis center and a local Italian political party — almost certainly has nothing to do with the Islamist militants, law enforcement and security experts said
Monday. The FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they are investigating the hacks, which placed a picture of the black ISIS flag and the words "hacked by ISIS, we are everywhere" at the top of the targets' homepages and invoked a Flash audio plugin playing a...
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What Is Really Going On: "We Can't Run The World Without China' To A Massive US National Debt China Helped Cover, Will China Hang By The Rope It Gave To The USA?
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Nextrush Free ^
| 2/18/2023-2/23/2023 | Nextrush/Self
"the biggest contribution that the U.S. can make to the debt issues outside the country is to act on responsible monetary policies, cope with its own debt problem, and stop sabotaging other countries' active efforts to solve their own debt issues" The Chinese Embassy In Zambia Reacts To US Treasury Secretary Janet
Yellen's Criticism Of China's Debt Terms For African Nations 1/24/2023 "We can't run the world without China" President Richard Nixon Speaks To Political Journalist Theodore White As Quoted In "The Making Of The President 1968" "The capitalist will sell us the rope with which to hang them" Soviet...
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CHINA Published 3 hours ago
China bashes US over sub in South China Sea after collision with unknown object
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fox news ^
China has issued stiff condemnation over the revelation of a U.S. nuclear submarine was in the South China Sea after the vessel collided with an unknown object. The
USS Connecticut made contact with an object while submerged Tuesday, causing several non-life-threatening injuries to the crew onboard. The submarine was operating in the South China Sea and reached Guam Friday. Officials revealed no details about the collision or extent of damage to the USS Connecticut, but China’s Foreign Ministry expressed "serious concern" over the incident.
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China’s Death Toll in Bloody India–China Border Clash Remains a Mystery: China Did Not Announce Any Deaths For Eight Months
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Epoch Times ^
| 02/25/2021 | Nicole Hao
China’s state-run media announced on Feb. 19 that four Chinese soldiers died at Galwan Valley, an India–China border region, in a violent face-off on June 15, 2020, while an Indian officer said China’s death toll was 45. It
was the first deadly clash on the China–India border in the past four decades. After the bloody fight, India announced that 20 soldiers had died and honored them several times. China didn’t announce any deaths for eight months, until Feb. 19. China and India had troops in a standoff for months at multiple locations along the disputed China–India border in the Ladakh...
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