September 7, 2023

UPI: Microsoft report highlights Chinese social media campaign against U.S.

UPI: Microsoft report highlights Chinese social media campaign against U.S.. “Microsoft accused China on Thursday of operating a disinformation campaign targeting political candidates by impersonating U.S. voters on numerous social media platforms. In a threat analysis report, Microsoft said that the Chinese Communist Party has improved its sophistication in engaging targeted audiences and their spread is much wider than observed in the past.”

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August 12, 2023

Washington Post: China hacked Japan’s sensitive defense networks, officials say

Washington Post: China hacked Japan’s sensitive defense networks, officials say. “Tokyo has taken steps to strengthen its networks. But they are still deemed not sufficiently secure from Beijing’s prying eyes, which, officials say, could impede greater intelligence-sharing between the Pentagon and Japan’s Defense Ministry. The 2020 penetration was so disturbing that Gen. Paul Nakasone, the head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, and Matthew Pottinger, who was White House deputy national security adviser at the time, raced to Tokyo. They briefed the defense minister, who was so concerned that he arranged for them to alert the prime minister himself.”

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July 2, 2023

VOA: FBI Turning to Social Media to Track Traitors

VOA: FBI Turning to Social Media to Track Traitors. “The video is part of an expansive, long-running campaign by the FBI to use social media advertisements to recruit disgruntled Russian officials stationed across the United States and beyond, in part to sniff out Americans who have betrayed their country in order to aid Moscow. A VOA analysis finds the FBI has paid tens of thousands of dollars, at minimum, to multiple platforms for social media ads targeting Russian officials, with the pace of such ad buys increasing just before and then after Moscow launched its latest invasion of Ukraine.”

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May 16, 2023

Association Press: US announces criminal cases involving flow of technology, information to Russia, China and Iran

Associated Press: US announces criminal cases involving flow of technology, information to Russia, China and Iran. “The Justice Department announced a series of criminal cases Tuesday tracing the illegal flow of sensitive technology, including Apple’s software code for self-driving cars and materials used for missiles, to foreign adversaries like Russia, China and Iran.”

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April 30, 2023

Washington Post: Chinese hackers will ‘probably’ breach protected government networks within 5 years, leaked document says

Washington Post: Chinese hackers will ‘probably’ breach protected government networks within 5 years, leaked document says. “China’s government is testing capabilities to get around a cybersecurity model that the federal government has embraced — and that testing, combined with ‘advanced infiltration techniques,’ will ‘probably’ allow Chinese access to some government networks protected by the model within the next five years, according to a leaked classified document that hasn’t previously been reported.”

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April 18, 2023

Wall Street Journal: U.S. Arrests Two, Charges Dozens for Alleged Illegal U.S. Activities by Chinese Security Agents

Wall Street Journal: U.S. Arrests Two, Charges Dozens for Alleged Illegal U.S. Activities by Chinese Security Agents . “More than 40 Chinese security officers and their associates wielded thousands of fake social-media personas to discredit American policies and set up a secret police station in New York City to harass China’s critics, U.S. prosecutors charged in three complaints unveiled Monday.”

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April 16, 2023

Washington Post: Leaked secret documents detail up to four additional Chinese spy balloons

Washington Post: Leaked secret documents detail up to four additional Chinese spy balloons. “U.S. intelligence agencies were aware of up to four additional Chinese spy balloons, and questions lingered about the true capabilities of the one that flew over the continental United States in January and February, according to previously unreported top-secret intelligence documents.”

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March 22, 2023

Bleeping Computer: North Korean hackers using Chrome extensions to steal Gmail emails

Bleeping Computer: North Korean hackers using Chrome extensions to steal Gmail emails. “Kimsuky (aka Thallium, Velvet Chollima) is a North Korean threat group that uses spear phishing to conduct cyber-espionage against diplomats, journalists, government agencies, university professors, and politicians. Initially focused on targets in South Korea, the threat actors expanded operations over time to target entities in the USA and Europe.”

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November 15, 2022

Bleeping Computer: Chinese hackers target government agencies and defense orgs

Bleeping Computer: Chinese hackers target government agencies and defense orgs. “A cyberespionage threat actor tracked as Billbug (a.k.a. Thrip, Lotus Blossom, Spring Dragon) has been running a campaign targeting a certificate authority, government agencies, and defense organizations in several countries in Asia. The most recent attacks were observed since at least March but the actor has been operating stealthily for more than a decade and it is believed to be a state-sponsored group working for China.”

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