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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

The report also highlighted that Chinese groups continue to share malware tools a long-standing hallmark of Chinese cyber espionage with the KEYPLUG backdoor serving as a prime example. Vault Panda has used many malware families shared by Chinese threat actors, including KEYPLUG, Winnti, Melofee, HelloBot, and ShadowPad.

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Dulling the impact of AI-fueled cyber threats with AI

CIO

It can also create cyber threats that are harder to detect than before, such as AI-powered malware, which can learn from and circumvent an organization’s defenses at breakneck speed. Businesses will need to invest in hardware and infrastructure that are optimized for AI and this may incur significant costs.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

The report also highlighted that Chinese groups continue to share malware tools a long-standing hallmark of Chinese cyber espionage with the KEYPLUG backdoor serving as a prime example. Vault Panda has used many malware families shared by Chinese threat actors, including KEYPLUG, Winnti, Melofee, HelloBot, and ShadowPad.

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Enhancing Private 5G Security in industrial deployments

CIO

OT can be at the heart of critical infrastructure, meaning disruption could cause major problems and even endanger people. More than ever, businesses are concerned that threat actors could place malware on their OT networks and syphon valuable data over an extended period. Yet with this progress comes new opportunities for hackers.

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Threat Alert: New Malware in the Cloud By TeamTNT

Aqua Security

The scripts and malware that were used bear a striking resemblance to none other than the threat actor TeamTNT. Since then, we have only seen legacy attacks which automatically run on past infrastructure. Over the past week we observed three different attacks on our honeypots. Eleven months ago they posted a farewell note on Twitter.

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AndroxGhost – the python malware exploiting your AWS keys

Lacework

Hackers may hijack AWS infrastructure for a number of reasons. While cryptomining is more profitable on infrastructure owned by somebody else, the same can also be said for SMTP abuse and spam. For AWS specifically, the malware scans for and parses AWS keys but also has the ability to generate keys for brute force attacks.

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Kinsing Malware Hides Itself as a Manual Page and Targets Cloud Servers

Tenable

Unlike traditional on-premises infrastructure, cloud infrastructure allows attackers to quickly deploy resources for cryptomining, making it easier to exploit. One of the most common cryptomining threats for cloud environments is the Kinsing malware. The malware has a cryptominer embedded in it called XMRig.

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