Cyber Attacks Plague Taiwan After Pelosi Visit Enrages Beijing August 4, 2022 By Sarah Wu and Eduardo Baptista As U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a brief visit to Taiwan this week that enraged Beijing, the...
Chinese Military Reported to Be Behind Japan Cyber Attacks April 21, 2021 By Isabel Reynolds and Alyza Sebenius China’s military is thought to have instructed a hacker group to conduct cyber attacks on nearly 200 Japanese research institutions...
Microsoft Flaw Exposes as Many as 60,000 Computer Systems in Germany March 11, 2021 By Andreas Rinke BERLIN – As many as 60,000 computer systems in Germany were exposed to a flaw that allows unauthorized users to...
China’s Microsoft Hack, Russia’s SolarWinds Attack Threaten to Overwhelm U.S. March 10, 2021 By Ryan Gallagher, Kartikay Mehrotra and Jordan Robertson China’s global attack on Microsoft’s popular email software revealed last week and an equally sprawling Russian attack discovered three months...
Russia-Backed Hackers Behind Most Nation-State Cyber Attacks: Microsoft October 2, 2020 By Alyza Sebenius Russia-based hackers are responsible for the majority of nation-state attacks on Microsoft customers, according to new data from company. Microsoft...
U.S. Prosecutors Charge 7 in Alleged Multi-Target Chinese Hacking Scheme September 17, 2020 The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it has charged five Chinese residents and two Malaysian businessmen in a wide-ranging...
China-Backed Hackers ‘Targeted’ COVID-19 Vaccine Firm Moderna, Reuters Reports July 31, 2020 By Christopher Bing and Marisa Taylor Chinese government-linked hackers targeted biotech company Moderna Inc., a U.S.-based coronavirus vaccine research developer, this year in a bid to...
Chinese Hacking Group Resumes Global Attacks on Companies, Agencies December 19, 2019 By Ryan Gallagher A Chinese government-linked hacking group that was thought to be dormant has been quietly targeting companies and government agencies for...
Telecoms Have Lost Vast Data to Chinese Hackers Over 7 Years, Security Firm Says June 26, 2019 By Ari Rabinovitch and Tova Cohen Hackers broke into the systems of more than a dozen global telecom firms and stole huge amounts of data in...
German Firms Warned About Rising Threat from Chinese Hackers: Report December 19, 2018 Germany’s Office for Information Security (BSI) has issued warnings to several German firms named by the United States as possible...