Chinese hackers breached 13 US gas pipeline from 2011-13
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21 Jul 2021, 06:55 GMT+10
Washington DC [US], July 21 (ANI): Chinese state-sponsored hackers successfully breached 13 US natural gas pipeline operators from 2011 through 2013, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced on Tuesday (local time). The US government identified and tracked 23 US natural gas pipeline operators targeted from 2011 to 2013 in this spearphishing and intrusion campaign, CISA advisory said. Thirteen were confirmed compromises, three were near misses, and eight had an unknown depth of intrusion. The security agency said the US federal government had specifically attributed the attacks to state-sponsored forces backed by the Chinese government. The US government has attributed this activity to Chinese state-sponsored actors. CISA and the FBI assess that these actors were specifically targeting US pipeline infrastructure for the purpose of holding US pipeline infrastructu
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London: British MPs pushing to take a tougher stance on Beijing have been told that a cyberattack had been launched against them, a day after Five Eyes nations and allies accused China’s Ministry of State Security of carrying out a fresh cyber-intrusion.
The MPs were told that a successful intrusion had taken place and that another was imminent and that co-chairs of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) were the specific targets.
Sir Iain Duncan Smith learned of the attack from a colleague.
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Former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith who helped found the IPAC told the Commons that he had only learned of the threat via his IPAC colleagues and not from his own government.
TSA Issues Second Directive for Pipeline Operators Amid China Concerns
A separate advisory from the CISA this week resurfaced details of a 2011–2013 Chinese campaign against energy industry targets and warned that same tactics and techniques still remain effective.
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The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Tuesday issued a directive requiring oil pipeline operators to implement specific measures to protect against ransomware and other threats to their business and operational technology (OT) networks.
The directive is the TSA s second for oil pipeline operators in the last two months and is a sign of the heightened concerns over critical cyber vulnerabilities in US oil and gas infrastructure following the crippling ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline in May. That attack attributed to a Russia-linked group called DarkSide shut down some 5,500 miles of pipeline and caused temporary oil shortages across lar
Japan: China ‘Highly Likely‘ Behind Cyberattacks on Japanese Companies
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20 Jul 2021
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Kato Katsunobu announced Tuesday that a hacking group known as APT40 attacked several Japanese companies and is “highly likely” to be an instrument of the Chinese government.
“We are keeping a close eye, with strong concern” on the cyberattacks, Kato said at a press briefing.
Japan’s Foreign Ministry released a statement about the cyberattacks that concurred with the judgment of American, British, and allied intelligence services that APT40 (Advanced Persistent Threat 40) is working for the Chinese state.
“Japan also assesses that it is highly likely that the Chinese government is behind APT40 and has been paying close attention with deep concern to these attacks by APT40 and others which threaten the security of cyberspace. Japan strongly supports the public statements by the United Kingdom, the United States and other c
China s Claim on Vulnerability Details Could Chill Researchers
The Network Security Law of the People s Republic of China enforces coordinated disclosure, but also requires that researchers notify the government of vulnerabilities.
Robert Lemos
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A new law
issued by the Chinese government makes it illegal to share vulnerability
information with any organization except for the government and the maker of
the affected product, a restriction that will likely chill research efforts,
even among Chinese citizens living overseas, according to security and legal
experts.
The Network Security Law of the People s Republic of China,
issued on July 13, aims on its face to improve the security of Chinese