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Chinese spy balloons found using commercial ISPs

A commercial internet service provider in the US was said to have been used by Chinese intelligence to link up with the spy balloons spotted over remote parts of the country earlier this year

Cisco router security warning

"The modified firmware uses a built-in SSH backdoor, allowing BlackTech actors to maintain access to the compromised router without their connections being logged"

Quis custodiet? Powerful Japanese cybersecurity agency hacked, as allies fret

"Japan's cybersecurity nightmare is everyone else's problem, too"

US Congress kicks off probe over allegations of Chinese hackers targeting government agencies

A trio of US Reps have begun a probe into the alleged hacking of government agencies by Chinese hackers, seeking briefings from a pair of key officials

Chinese state-backed hackers Typhoon Volt targeted US critical infrastructure

The group is intent on developing capabilities and access that “could disrupt critical communications infrastructure between the United States and Asia region during future crises.” Threat vector Fortinet has questions to answer ...

Chinese APT taps trojanised routers for mystery purposes

Horse Shell has a "penchant for complex structures" (and simple errors)

Introducing 6 new Top Level open source ASF projects

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has graduated six new open source software projects to “Top Level” status in Q1 of 2023. (Getting Top-Level Project status is essentially a vote of confidence in a project’s community and product governance.) Perhaps interestingly to some, more than half (four of the six)

China details custom offensive tools, says NSA hacked “tens of thousands of devices”

Multiple versions of "Stoic surgeon" backdoor used in attack says CVERC

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