Cicada, a hacking group allegedly backed by the Chinese government, is using VLC Media Player to deploy a malicious malware loader as part of a long-running cyberattack campaign, security experts have discovered. USING VLC MEDIA PLAYER According to findings by researchers, Cicada’s current campaign began in the middle of last year and was still going strong in February 2022 and …
BOSTON — Cyberattacks against Ukrainian government websites and affiliated organizations added to the confusion of Russia’s military assault Thursday, including data-wiping malware activated a day earlier that cybersecurity researchers said infected hundreds of computers including in neighboring Latvia and Lithuania. Madory said Ukraine’s internet was “under severe stress presently.” The London-based Netblocks internet monitor said the eastern city of Kharkiv, …
New York CNN — Chinese hackers acquired and used National Security Agency hacking tools in 2016 and used them to carry out cyberattacks, a new report has found. In the report, the cybersecurity company Symantec claims that a Chinese hacker group associated with Chinese government intelligence conducted a hacking campaign using a tool that at the time was only known …
