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Fri 9 Oct1
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The U.S. Justice Department and FBI have seized two hacking tools, Microscan and FishHub, that court documents say were operated and used by Flax Typhoon actors working for a China-based company. According to the government, the tools were used to scan, and in some cases hack, U.S. and foreign critical infrastructure systems and other networks. The court-authorized seizures were announced alongside court documents unsealed in the Western District of Pennsylvania. Prosecutors allege the actors wo
Thu 8 Oct1
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The U.S. Department of State's Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program is offering up to $10 million for information on Zhang Yu, a Chinese national accused of hacking COVID-19 research at U.S. universities on behalf of China's Ministry of State Security (MSS). U.S. officials also describe Zhang as a key figure in the HAFNIUM hacking campaign, which compromised thousands of computers worldwide. His alleged partner, Xu Zewei, was arrested in Italy in July 2025 and extradited to the United States in Apr
Tue 1 Sept1
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The China-nexus espionage group Fire Ant has moved from compromising virtualization platforms to implanting Cisco IOS XR routers and TACACS authentication servers. They are using them to capture traffic, harvest administrator credentials and suppress the logs defenders rely on, said researchers at Sygnia, an incident response firm. Researchers first documented Fire Ant in July 2025 for deep intrusions into VMware ESXi and vCenter environments. The new report describes the same actor operating a