FBI Director Christopher Wray recently gave a grave warning to America — Chinese hackers have stolen the personal information of almost 50 percent of the U.S. population, including most adults. He was speaking at a congressional testimony on the subject of Chinese data theft. A security risk from data theft Wray stated that an American ...
Driven by a desire to hurt Taiwan, China is hacking into the semiconductor companies in the island nation. Taiwan is home to one of the biggest semiconductor industries in the world. The sector is basically the core of the country’s economy. Even China is unable to match Taiwan’s many achievements when it comes to semiconductor ...
Hackers linked to the Chinese government tried to access data from Moderna, a U.S. COVID-19 vaccine developer. Moderna has been working toward a COVID-19 vaccine since January. The U.S. government is betting big on Moderna, hoping that it would soon release a viable vaccine. Hacking Moderna The U.S. Justice Department has indicted two Chinese nationals ...
The U.S. Justice Department recently announced that it has charged four Chinese citizens, suspected of working for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), with stealing the personal data of millions of Americans. The hacking took place in 2017 when the criminals breached the servers of credit reporting agency Equifax and stole private data like the names, social ...
The Australian National University (ANU) was recently the victim of hacking where 19 years’ worth of data about students and staff was stolen. According to intelligence officials, China is the number one suspect in the attack. Hacking ANU “In late 2018, a sophisticated operator accessed our systems illegally. We detected the breach two weeks ago… ...
A security research report has revealed that Chinese hacking groups targeted a minimum of 27 American universities, looking for U.S. military secrets. The report is authored by iDefense, the security research wing of Accenture. Stealing American secrets by hacking The hackers are said to use spear phishing to access files, meaning that they appear as ...
In December 2018, the United States government charged two Chinese nationals for a hacking attempt aimed at stealing sensitive information from at least 45 American tech companies. The Chinese hackers, who are part of a hacking group known as APT10, even targeted the NASA Goddard Space Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The charges are likely ...
The U.S. administration has charged two Chinese nationals with stealing sensitive business secrets from several American and international companies. The accused Chinese hackers are linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Chinese hackers stealing business secrets The hackers have been identified to be part of a group known as Advanced Persistent Threat 10 (APT 10). ...
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