Australia's Cybersecurity Agency Says China-backed Hackers Behind Online Crimes (nbcnews.com) 13
Australia's government cybersecurity agency on Tuesday accused a China-backed hacker group of stealing passwords and usernames from two unnamed Australian networks in 2022, adding that the group remained a threat. From a report: A joint report led by the Australian Cyber Security Centre said the hackers, named APT40, had conducted malicious cyber operations for China's Ministry of State Security, the main agency overlooking foreign intelligence. "The activity and techniques overlap with the groups tracked as Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) 40," said the report, which included inputs from lead cyber security agencies for the United States, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and Germany. U.S. and British officials in March had accused Beijing of a sweeping cyberespionage campaign that allegedly hit millions of people including lawmakers, academics and journalists, and companies including defense contractors. They said China-backed "APT31" was responsible for the network intrusion.
Non-news.. unless you're propagandising.... (Score:1)
..is it of note if EVERYONE is doing it? Of course, if you said that it would be a focus on the poor state of security in - by design - in general, instead of future war narrative seeding.
Stealing account credentials is run of the mill. Compare that sort of thing to what Snowden revealed in his book and you can see this is purely a public influence statement. There sure are a LOT of those here on slashdot.
Re: Non-news.. unless you're propagandising.... (Score:2, Insightful)
But our democracy is threatened.
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Why is it that you only shout "Not News!" when it's the Chinese?
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Because almost all the news is always about China breaking in, and not any other nations, and it's also based on accusations, and not on definite proof. It's pretty rare to see something about the US or other nations, unless there's a whistleblower.
Re: Non-news.. unless you're propagandising.... (Score:2)
Yes but there's a Chinese next to the Russian under my bed! It's getting crowded and they eat all my groceries!
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There are frequently stories about computer break-ins on Slashdot.
Why is it that you only shout "Not News!" when it's the Chinese?
He is getting a paycheck to say that, you insensitive clod! 8^) And be nice - he can't even blame this on the USA. Very stressful!
Re: Non-news.. unless you're propagandising.... (Score:2)
Indeed, and you can't even tell who is doing it, despite their claims.
Vault 7 is known, thanks to Wikileaks and the newly freed Julian Assange.
Simpletons (Score:2, Funny)
Duh
China is asshole!
- Unknown Hong Kong Resident
Block China (Score:1)
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It should be made easy for IP admin to be requesting UNSUBSCRIBE from North Korea, China, Iran and ruZZia all at once, and by default. Looking at most Internet-exposed devices, we immediately notice constant traffic from these poking it, attempting admin login, and what not.
Re: Block China (Score:2)
China does not block "the rest", so you're basing your suggestion on a false premise, and ignorance.
Also, "the rest" do their darndest to block China already. You'd know if you'd spent any time in China. Google is bad enough, but I'm finding Cloudflare to be the worst...their "robot checks" are enough to make the user give up and go elsewhere.
Then there are services/sites that insist on using Internet services that can't be arsed to serve China (and comply with Chinese laws) , so those services just don't w
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