Best not to buy cheap hardware and use third-party app stores if you want to stay clear of this vast ad fraud effort ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged 12 Chinese nationals, including officers of China’s Ministry of Public Security ...

Twelve Chinese nationals, including two public security ministry officers, have been indicted for a series of hacking attacks ...

A previously unknown threat activity cluster targeted European organizations, particularly those in the healthcare sector, to deploy PlugX and its successor, ShadowPad, with the intrusions ultimately ...

Cyberattacks detected by Trend Micro and Orange Cyberdefense find hackers using malware linked to China-backed groups and ransomware, adding more evidence that nation-state cyberespionage groups are ...

The attacks exploited CVE-2024-24919, a Check Point Security Gateway vulnerability, to gain access to targeted networks and deploy the ShadowPad and PlugX malware, two families tightly associated ...

The extortionists said it would be reduced to $1 million if paid in three days. Crucially, Symantec’s threat researchers observed the use of a custom version of the PlugX backdoor previously deployed ...

The toolset, first spotted in July, was a variant of PlugX, a custom backdoor. Timestamps in the toolset were identical to those found by security firm Palo Alto Network in the Thor PlugX variant ...

The particular PlugX variant, or plug-in, that was observed together with ransomware by Symantec, has previously been linked by researchers from Palo Alto Networks and Trend Micro to a Chinese APT ...

Specifically, the attack chains entails the use of a legitimate Toshiba executable named "toshdpdb.exe" to sideload a malicious DLL named "toshdpapi.dll," which, in turn, acts as a conduit to load the ...

The toolset includes a legitimate Toshiba executable deployed on the victims’ systems to sideload a malicious DLL that deploys a heavily obfuscated payload containing the PlugX (aka Korplug) backdoor.