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 …
Symantec described its findings to Reuters ahead of planned public release. A sophisticated hacking campaign launched from computers in China burrowed deeply into satellite operators, defence contractors and telecommunications companies in the United States and southeast Asia, security researchers at Symantec Corp said on Tuesday. More disturbingly, in this case, the hackers infected computers that controlled the satellites, so that …
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