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‘China’s MIT’ Linked to Espionage Campaign Against Alaska, Economic Partners

The targets were scanned millions of times, and are all in some way linked to China's ongoing economic development activities, according to Recorded Future.

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Cyberespionage Group Steps Up Campaigns Against Japanese Firms

Researchers unearth new tactics and strategies used by the criminals behind the hacking group known as Bronze Butler.

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Shamoon Collaborator Greenbug Adopts New Communication Tool

New clues surface on Shamoon’s ability steal credentials ahead of attacks.

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Ransomware, Cyberespionage Dominate Verizon DBIR

Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report for 2017 shows big growth in the reported number of ransomware attacks and incidents involving cyberespionage.

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Russian-Speaking Turla Joins APT Elite

Researchers may have found a link between Moonlight Maze of the late ’90s and the Turla APT, which would elevate Turla to the ranks of the Equation Group as an elite nation-state attacker.

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InPage Zero Day Used in Attacks Against Banks

Banks in Asia and Africa have been targeted with exploits for a zero-day vulnerability in InPage publishing software popular in Arabic-speaking nations.

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The Ethics and Morality Behind APT Reports

Investigating state-sponsored espionage and counterterrorism is one thing. Writing public reports about these activities is another.

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Gentle Reminder at RSA: Hacking Back is a Bad Idea

A panel at RSA Conference on appropriate responses to state-sponsored espionage of intellectual property for economic gain served as a reminder of the dangers of hacking back.

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Stealthy GlassRAT Spies on Commercial Targets

RSA has uncovered GlassRAT, a spy tool targeting commercial targets that's signed with a stolen certificate from a large developer in China.

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Threatpost News Wrap, September 4, 2015

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the potential US sanctions against China over cyberespionage, the browser vendors dumping RC4, the trouble at Mobile Pwn2Own and more security news of the week.

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New Hammertoss Espionage Tool Tied to MiniDuke Gang

Hammertoss, a backdoor uncovered by researchers at FireEye, combines many previous communication venues used by APT29, a espionage outfit linked to the Russian government.

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Information-Stealing Stegoloader Malware Hides in Images

Dell SecureWorks said a new version of the Stegoloader malware uses steganography to hide itself from detection.

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Verizon DBIR Challenges Data Breach Cost Estimates

Data breaches are expensive to victim organizations, but that cost is going down, according to Verizon, which today released its annual Data Breach Investigations Report.

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Volatile Cedar APT Group First Operating Out of Lebanon

An APT group with its sights on selective targets, most of those in Israel, has been using an elusive malware implant to steal data from groups with state and political interests.

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Equation APT Group Attack Platform A Study in Stealth

The EquationDrug cyberespionage platform is a complicated system that is used selectively against only certain target machines, one that can be extended via a collection of 116 malware plug-ins,...

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First Arabic Cyberespionage Operation Uncovered

The Desert Falcons gang is the first Arabic APT group, according to researchers at Kaspersky Lab.

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U.S. Officials Say Chinese Cyberespionage ‘Needs to Stop’

The top cybersecurity officials in the United States on Wednesday said that China is harming the potential for an open Internet through its policies of censorship, and also said the country’s continued...

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Female Skype Avatar Sinks Syria Opposition Fighters

A cyberespionage campaign pulled off by pro-Syrian hackers against Assad opposition fighters used social engineering to steal military planning documents.

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Details on Regin Malware Modules Disclosed

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab today released a detailed analysis of two modules belonging to the Regin malware platform, one for lateral movement, the other a backdoor.

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Skeleton Key Malware Opens Door to Espionage

The Skeleton Key malware bypasses single-factor authentication on Active Directory domain controllers and paves the way to stealthy cyberespionage.

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