Nation-State Cyber Threats
One backdoored authentication module, one isolated network, ten years of undetected access — a reminder that critical authentication primitives are a forever-target.
Nation-State Cyber Threats
A coordinated public-private takedown disrupts one of 2026's largest China-based cybercrime networks — and Google sues a related operation for abusing Gemini.
Nation-State Cyber Threats
A small-footprint, long-tail Chinese proxy network grows past 1,500 devices — defenders should account for this layer of reconnaissance infrastructure.
Nation-State Cyber Threats
ReliaQuest disclosed OP-512, a previously unreported, China-linked espionage cluster that plants a custom three-web-shell framework on Microsoft IIS servers — the fourth such group to target IIS in a year. For anyone running IIS, it is a prompt to go hunting.
Nation-State Cyber Threats
A joint Five Eyes advisory warns that Chinese intelligence officers, posing as recruiters and consultants for front companies, are using LinkedIn, Indeed and Upwork to recruit government, military and cleared personnel — and anyone with access to classified or privileged information.
Nation-State Cyber Threats
Seqrite Labs disclosed Operation Dragon Weave, a China-aligned cyber-espionage campaign delivering an AdaptixC2 agent against government, research, academic, technology, and financial-services targets in the Czech Republic and Taiwan via spear-phishing ZIPs.
Application Security
The cPanel CVE-2026-41940 story continues. A new threat actor has been named, the backdoor it deploys has been documented, and the most operationally relevant fact is that this group has been operating since 2020 with detection rates close to zero. BEIJING, CHINA — A new threat actor designated Mr_
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Trend Micro publishes full technical attribution of Shadow-Earth-053 — confirming the China-linked group targets journalists and civil society activists alongside governments and defense sectors across Asia and one NATO member state.
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Silver Fox has launched a tax-themed phishing campaign across India, Russia, Indonesia, and Japan — deploying ValleyRAT and the newly documented ABCDoor Python backdoor via fake tax authority notifications.
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A previously undocumented China-linked threat group tracked as Shadow-Earth-053 has infiltrated 12+ critical networks across Poland and Asian nations — targeting defense contractors, government agencies, and transport infrastructure.
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A Chinese state-linked contract hacker, Xu Zewei, has been extradited from Italy to the United States and charged for his alleged role in the Silk-Typhoon (Hafnium) campaigns that targeted U.S. universities conducting COVID-19 vaccine research and later thousands of Microsoft Exchange email servers worldwide. WASHINGTON, D.
Cyber Attacks
China-linked Mustang Panda (TA416 / RedDelta) has broadened its targeting from predominantly government and policy entities in the West to India’s banking sector and Korean peninsula policy actors. Using an updated LOTUSLITE backdoor delivered via CHM files and DLL sideloading of legitimate Microsoft-signed executables, the campaign marks a