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CISA’s ‘CI Fortify’ Aims to Secure Critical Infrastructure During Conflicts

Jeffrey Burt | May 6, 2026 | China-nexus cyber espionage, CISA Advisory, Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, CyberAv3ngers, energy and utilities, Iran cyber capabilities, network segmentation, public water systems, Salt Typhoon, Telecommunications Security, Volt Typhoon, zero trust

CISA in its "Fortify CI" effort is warning critical infrastructure organizations like those in such sectors as energy, water, telecommunication, and healthcare about cyber threats that come with geopolitical conflicts and urging ...

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China-Backed Groups are Using Massive Botnets in Espionage, Intrusion Campaigns

Jeffrey Burt | April 27, 2026 | BeyondTrust, Botnet Attack, China-linked Hackers, China-nexus cyber espionage, CISA Advisory, Flax Typhoon, IoT botnets, SOHO and IoT device vulnerabilities, Viakoo Labs, Volt Typhoon

China-sponsored threat groups like Salt Typhoon and Flax Typhoon are increasingly relying on multiple massive botnets comprising edge and IoT devices to run their cyber espionage and network intrusion campaigns, CISA and ...

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China Hackers Using Brickstorm Backdoor to Target Government, IT Entities

Jeffrey Burt | December 5, 2025 | Brickstorm backdoor, China-nexus cyber espionage, cisa, Salt Typhoon, U.S. National Security Agency, Volt Typhoon

Chinese-sponsored groups are using the popular Brickstorm backdoor to access and gain persistence in government and tech firm networks, part of the ongoing effort by the PRC to establish long-term footholds in ...

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ShadyPanda Takes its Time to Weaponize Legitimate Extensions

ShadyPanda spent seven years uploading trusted Chrome and Edge extensions, later weaponizing them for tracking, hijacking, and remote code execution. Learn how the campaign unfolded ...

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App Stores OK’ed VPNs Run by China PLA

Bad Apple: Chinese firm banned by the U.S. is the shady entity behind a clutch of free VPN apps—with over a million downloads ...

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Chinese DeepSeek AI App: FULL of Security Holes Say Researchers

Richi Jennings | February 10, 2025 | AI, AI (Artificial Intelligence), AI privacy, application-level encryption, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence News, artificial intellignece, Artificial Stupidity, artificialintelligence, breach of privacy, Bytedance, California Consumer Privacy Act, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), china, china espionage, China Mobile, China-nexus cyber espionage, Chinese, Chinese Communists, chinese government, Chinese Internet Security, Chinese keyboard app security, Congress, congressional legislation, cybersecurity artificial intelligence, Darin LaHood, Data encryption, Data encryption standards, Data Stolen By China, DeepSeek, DeepSeek AI, encryption, Josh Gottheimer, Large Language Models (LLM), Large language models (LLMs), LLM, llm security, No DeepSeek on Government Devices Act, Peoples Republic of China, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Unencrypted Data, US Congress

Xi knows if you’ve been bad or good: iPhone app sends unencrypted data to China—and Android app appears even worse ...

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China is Still Inside US Networks — It’s Been SIX Months

Hell froze over: FBI and NSA recommend you use strong encryption ...

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Ô! China Hacks Canada too, Says CCCS

Plus brillants exploits: Canadian Centre for Cyber Security fingers Chinese state sponsored hackers ...

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China Cyberwar Coming? Versa’s Vice: Volt Typhoon’s Target

Richi Jennings | August 28, 2024 | CenturyLink, china, china espionage, China-linked Hackers, China-nexus cyber attacks, China-nexus cyber espionage, CVE-2024-39717, Lumen, Lumen Technologies, Peoples Republic of China, SB Blogwatch, Versa Director, Versa Neworks, VersaMem, Volt Typhoon

Xi whiz: Versa Networks criticized for swerving the blame ...

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Velvet Ant Exploits Cisco Zero-Day Flaw

Wajahat Raja | July 16, 2024 | China-nexus cyber espionage, Cisco NX-OS vulnerability, Command Injection Vulnerability, CVE-2024-20399, Cybersecurity News, Cybersecurity zero-day flaw

Recent events in the cybersecurity landscape have brought to light the activities of a China-nexus cyber espionage group known as Velvet Ant. The threat actor group has been observed exploiting a zero-day ...

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Senator Sanders Wants to Own AI Companies — and Hand America’s Adversaries the Keys

NIST’s Nine: The PQC Signature Race Moves to Round Three

The Quantum Arms Race: Why Washington Just Wrote a $2 Billion Check to Nine Companies

Beyond Moore’s Law: The Hyper-Acceleration of Autonomous AI Cyber Capabilities

The Exception Economy: When Security Teams Stop Protecting and Start Negotiating

GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

C2A Security’s EVSec Risk Management and Automation Platform Gains Traction in Automotive Industry as Companies Seek to Efficiently Meet Regulatory Requirements

Zama Raises $73M in Series A Lead by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs to Commercialize Fully Homomorphic Encryption

RSM US Deploys Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform to Secure Clients

ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On