Chinese TEMP.Periscope cyberespionage group targeted a UK-based engineering company using TTPs associated with Russia-linked APT groups. Attribution of cyber attacks is always a hard task, in many cases attackers use false flags to masquerade their...
Senior German officials are making pressure on the government to exclude Chinese firms from building the country’s 5G infrastructure. Many countries are going to build 5G infrastructure, but the approach of the government is completely different....
Snowden warns of abuse of surveillance software that also had a role in the murder of the Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The popular US whistleblower Edward Snowden has reported the abuse of surveillance made by many governments, he blamed...
Security researchers revealed in a recent paper that over the past years, China Telecom used BGP hijacking to misdirect Internet traffic through China. Security researchers Chris C. Demchak and Yuval Shavitt revealed in a recent paper that over the past...
Google queries allowed Iran Government to dismantle the CIA communication network used by its agents and kill dozens of tens of spies The alleged hack of the communications network used by CIA agents allowed Iranian intelligence to identify and kill...
Twitter announced to have deleted more than 10,000 accounts managed by bots that were posting messages to influence U.S. Midterm election. Twitter announced to have deleted more than 10,000 accounts managed by bots that were posting messages to discourage...
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the Chinese intelligence officers recruited hackers and insiders to hack aerospace and tech firms. US DoJ accuses the Chinese intelligence to have recruited hackers and insiders to steal confidential information...
Belgian newspaper reported that investigators had found proof that the Belgacom hack was the work of the UK GCHQ intelligence agency. Back to September 2013, Belgacom (now Proximus), the largest telecommunications company in Belgium and primarily state-owned,...
The Israel Defense Forces has bid to obtain spying systems that will allow monitoring of the private messages of social media users. Monitoring of social media platforms is a crucial activity for intelligence agencies, almost any government is working...
Attackers behind Operation Oceansalt reuse code from Chinese Comment Crew
Security researchers from McAfee have recently uncovered a cyber espionage campaign, tracked as Operation Oceansalt, targeting South Korea, the United States, and Canada. The threat actors behind Operation Oceansalt are reusing malware previously...