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A Chinese state hacking group is attacking superseded Cisco routers to target government entities in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Beijing

The Chinese state-sponsored APT has compromised as many as 30% of Cisco legacy routers on a SOHO botnet that multiple threat groups use.

The U.S., Australia, India, and the UK are having their government institutions subjected to new attacks by Chinese advanced persistent threat operation Volt Typhoon leveraging a pair of critical vulnerabilities in end-of-life Cisco small business RV320/325 VPN routers, tracked as CVE-2019-1652 and CVE-2019-1653, according to SecurityWeek.

A Chinese hacking group's reach may be bigger than we thought. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It's Friday, January 12th, 2024. I'm Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. The reach of a Chinese hacking group known for going after critical infrastructure in the United States may be

Generative AI is being used by China backed actors to infiltrate US infrastructure, experts warn

Banks have upped their security in response to new threats.

China and Russia remained cyber threats in 2023, A.I. displayed growing promise and peril, and attacks on infrastructure grew more troubling.

As the Biden administration pours money into grid enhancing technologies and announces a new federal-state initiative to modernize the U.S. electric grid, experts

It was a year of devastating cyberattacks around the globe, from ransomware attacks on casinos to state-sponsored breaches of critical infrastructure.