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Tag: Chinese


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Hacker Claims Major Chinese Citizens’ Data Theft

July 5, 2022

Via: Security Week

A sample of 750,000 entries posted online by the hacker showed citizens’ names, mobile phone numbers, national ID numbers, addresses, birthdays and police reports they had filed. AFP and cybersecurity experts have verified some of the citizen data in the […]


Network security

Chinese Manufacturer Promises Partial IoT Component Recall

October 25, 2016

Via: DataBreach Today

Chinese manufacturer Xiongmai Technologies has promised to recall or patch some components and circuit boards that it manufactures, which attackers compromised and used to help power a massive internet of things botnet that overwhelmed DNS provider Dyn’s systems on Oct. […]


Cloud security

Mobile Ad Network Abused in DDoS Attack: CloudFlare

September 28, 2015

Via: cloud-security

One of #cloudflare’s customers was recently hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that appeared to leverage a mobile ad network and malicious JavaScript. JavaScript-based DDoS attacks have been classified as Layer 7 attacks because they rely on apparently legitimate […]


Threats & Malware

Games are over

June 22, 2015

Via: threats-and-malware

For a long time the Winnti group had been considered as a Chinese threat actor targeting gaming companies specifically. Recently, we’ve seen information indicating that the scope of targets can be wider and is no longer limited to the entertainment […]