Death By Social Media: Are TikTok and WeChat Easy Marks for Attackers?
Most corporations understand the crucial need for efficient access management systems to protect the business from data loss and security breaches through unauthorized access. However, even large companies are in danger of ...
WeChat Case Study: Security With No Privacy
WeChat Case Study: Security With No PrivacyWechat OCR CodeCan you have security without privacy?Sitting at a train station in Shanghai, China, in February 2019, visiting family for the Chinese new year. My ...
WeChat Banned, TikTok Saved
The past few weeks have seen a flurry of activity surrounding two Chinese apps, TikTok (Bytdance) and WeChat (Tencent) and their ability to continue to have a presence in the United States ...
WeChat is Surveilling International User Files to Strengthen China’s National Censorship Model
Chinese social media giant WeChat is screening documents and images shared by overseas users, according to researchers from the Citizen Lab of the University of Toronto. As of late 2019, the messaging ...
The Ping is the Thing: Popular HTML5 Feature Used to Trick Chinese Mobile Users into Joining Latest DDoS Attack
DDoS attacks have always been a major threat to network infrastructure and web applications. Attackers are always creating new ways to exploit legitimate services for malicious purposes, forcing us to constantly research ...
More Than 100,000 PCs in China Infected by New Ransomware Strain
A new ransomware strain successfully infected more than 100,000 personal computers in China over a period of just four days. According to a report from Velvet Security, the first samples of this ...
