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Weaponizing Microsoft's own services for command-and-control is simple and costless, and helps attackers better avoid detection.

Belhurst Castle in the Finger Lakes Region of Upstate New York, is not just a historic landmark but also a site believed to have quite a haunted history.

Belhurst Castle in the Finger Lakes Region of Upstate New York, is not just a historic landmark but also a site believed to have quite a haunted history.

The state-sponsored threat actors (aka APT34, Crambus, Helix Kitten, or OilRig) spent months seemingly taking whatever government data they wished, using never-before-seen tools.

Nothing good happens after 2 a.m., they say, especially when hackers have two kinds of ransomware at their disposal.

Signs suggest the culprits worked within a notorious Chinese hacker group that may have also hacked Indian electric utilities years earlier.

Attacks against critical infrastructure are becoming more commonplace and, if a recent PRC-sponsored attack is anything to go by, easier to pull off.

The hackers, who mostly targeted victims in Hong Kong, also hijacked Microsoft’s trust model to make their malware harder to detect.

This is the first incident where a threat actor from the country appears to be laying the groundwork for disruptive attacks in the future, researchers say.

The recent 3CX data breach highlights that organizations can't afford to overlook the risks presented by software supply chain attacks.