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China Surveillance Company Hacked

Schneier on Security

I-Soon sells hacking and espionage services to Chinese national and local government. And they seem to primarily be hacking regionally. Last week, someone posted something like 570 files, images and chat logs from a Chinese company called I-Soon. Lots of details in the news articles.

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Canadian government discloses data breach after contractor hacks

Bleeping Computer

The Canadian government says two of its contractors have been hacked, exposing sensitive information belonging to an undisclosed number of government employees. [.]

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Massive cyberattacks hit French government agencies

Security Affairs

A series of “intense” cyberattacks hit multiple French government agencies, revealed the prime minister’s office. “Several “intense” cyberattacks targeted multiple French government agencies since Sunday night, as disclosed by the prime minister’s office.” ” reported the French newspaper Le Monde.

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Another Massive Russian Hack of US Government Networks

Schneier on Security

The press is reporting a massive hack of US government networks by sophisticated Russian hackers. Officials said a hunt was on to determine if other parts of the government had been affected by what looked to be one of the most sophisticated, and perhaps among the largest, attacks on federal systems in the past five years.

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UK Electoral Commission Hacked

Schneier on Security

The UK Electoral Commission discovered last year that it was hacked the year before. That’s fourteen months between the hack and the discovery. It doesn’t know who was behind the hack. We worked with external security experts and the National Cyber Security Centre to investigate and secure our systems.

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NSA Advisory on Chinese Government Hacking

Schneier on Security

This advisory provides Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) known to be recently leveraged, or scanned-for, by Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors to enable successful hacking operations against a multitude of victim networks.

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Hacking firm I-Soon data leak revealed Chinese gov hacking capabilities

Security Affairs

Recently the leak of a collection of files apparently stolen from the Chinese government hacking contractor, I-Soon, exposed Chinese hacking capabilities. Recently someone has leaked on GitHub [ 1 , 2 ] a collection of files apparently stolen from the Chinese hacking firm, I-Soon.

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