Defense Innovation Scholar at Stanford specializing in Chinese espionage🕵️♀️🌐
Open-source maritime geospatial intelligence analyst for
@GordianKnotRay
"Hackers linked to Beijing accessed the email account of the U.S. ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns, in an attack that is believed to have compromised at least hundreds of thousands of individual U.S. government emails."
"In July, an attack that was disguised as a ransomware incident temporarily closed down the port of Nagoya. It has since been assessed by government cyber experts as part of a “persistent testing of Japan’s infrastructural defences by China”
Oh dear. “The organisation responsible for Japan’s national defences against cyber attacks has itself been infiltrated by hackers, who may have gained access to sensitive data for as much as nine months”
"New Insikt Group research examines RedHotel, a Chinese state-sponsored threat activity group that stands out due to its persistence, operational intensity, and global reach." Likely based in Chengdu
"Microsoft said they pin the Flax Typhoon's activity as beginning mid-2021.
However, Taiwanese threat intelligence group TeamT5 told The Register it had tracked the group's activity since at least 2020 and had given it the temporary code name SLIME13."
"The well-orchestrated counterattacks speak to the financial resources of the hackers, not to mention their skill and the effectiveness of their TTPs, short for tactics, techniques, and procedures."
"China behind ‘largest ever’ digital influence operation
Groups linked with China’s law enforcement peppered more than 50 social media platforms with pro-Beijing messages, Meta says."
The tools described were "all linked to a set of infrastructure, parts of which have been tied to a threat actor named ToddyCat. ToddyCat was first publicly disclosed by Kaspersky and has been tied to Chinese espionage activity."
“The security advice will be to assume Chinese eavesdropping anywhere.” “In recent years Chinese government officials have taken extreme lengths to gather intelligence on Government officials, and the UK delegation would take no risks on Chinese soil.”