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Chinese Hackers Using Open Source Tools To Launch Cyber Attacks

Varshini — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:14:10 +0000

Three Chinese state-backed threat groups, APT10, GALLIUM, and Stately Taurus, have repeatedly employed a modified version of the open-source network scanning tool NBTscan over the past decade. NBTscan, designed for network discovery and forensics, sends NetBIOS status queries to IP addresses within a specified range. By analyzing the responses, it extracts valuable information like IP […]

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COVID-19 Research Organizations Attacked by Chinese Hackers Group

TanyaB — Fri, 15 May 2020 04:58:27 +0000

FBI warned that Chinese hackers are attacking organizations who plays a vital role in research on COVID-19. FBI and CISA have warned the organizations and multiple sectors includes state/local/tribal/territorial/private sectors and pharmaceutical and Health care departments. Due to COVID-19 Pandemic, cyber-attacks are kept increasing and the attackers targeting various sectors via malspam, phishing related attacks. […]

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Chinese Hackers Launching Zegost Malware to Attack Government Networks Via Weaponized MS Powerpoint

Balaji — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 07:13:43 +0000

Researchers discovered a new campaign with Zegost info stealer malware that believed to be originated from Chinese based threat actors who is targeting government networks in China. Zegost uncovered back to 2011 since then attackers updated with various new functionalities and added new persistence capabilities, exploits to maintain the access. Researchers believe that the malware only […]

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APT15 Hackers Using Steganography Technique to Drop Okrum Backdoor Via PNG File to Evade Detection

Balaji — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 03:59:48 +0000

Researchers discovered a previously unseen malware called Okrum that distributed from APT15 threat group via a hidden PNG file with steganography technique to evade detection. APT15 threat group also known as Ke3chang has a long history of its malicious activities since 2010, and it was initially reported in 2013 during their campaign activity attack organization in […]

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Chinese Cyber Espionage Group Targeting United States Engineering & Academic Organizations With Advanced Hacking Tools

Balaji — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 00:35:25 +0000

Chinese cyber espionage actor actively distributing TEMP.Periscope malware campaign that used for set of powerful malware toolkit to compromise U.S Engineering and other Organizations such as maritime industry, research institutes in the United States. This malware actively distributing since 2017 along with other Chinese malware campaign but it used various infection approach with a revised […]

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