China denies it was behind the Equifax hack, as four men charged for data breach

China has denied that it was behind the hack of Equifax in 2017, which saw the personal data of hundreds of millions of individuals stolen – including the names, birth dates and social security numbers for nearly half of all American citizens.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Coronavirus – hackers exploit fear of infection to spread malware

With sad predictability cybercriminals are exploiting the Coronavirus outbreak that occurred in Wuhan, mainland China, and is now causing new infections around the world.

Trend Micro anti-virus zero-day exploited in attack on Mitsubishi Electric

There is some egg on the face of Trend Micro after it is revealed their anti-virus software was exploited to steal data from Mitsubishi Electric, but they aren’t the real villains of the story.

Chinese tech firm Huawei says it was hacked by the United States

The Chinese technology giant says the United States has launched hacking attacks against its intranet and internal network.

But attributing a cyber attack to a particular party is notoriously difficult. It would certainly be just as fascinating to see Huawei’s reasons why it believes the USA hacked it, as to see what evidence the United States has against Huawei.

YouTube joins Facebook and Twitter, disabling accounts targeting Hong Kong protests

Good luck to the social media sites playing whack-a-mole as they try to police the activities of state-sponsored groups trying to influence the public’s opinion with co-ordinated campaigns. This isn’t going to be a problem that’s easy to fix.

DDoS attack that knocked Telegram secure messaging service offline linked to Hong Kong protests

An attack which targeted users of the Telegram app on Wednesday might be linked to protests in Hong Kong that turned violent.

Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

Unsecured databases found leaking half a billion resumes onto the net, no password required

A staggering 590 million resumes have leaked from poorly-secured Chinese companies in just the last three months.

Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

FBI boss warns businesses of Chinese hackers stealing their intellectual property

What’s the biggest cybersecurity threat for US businesses?

If FBI chief Christopher Wray is to be believed, it’s China.

Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.

Supermicro says independent investigation found no spy chips on its motherboards

An independent audit has found no evidence that malicious chips were planted on Supermicro’s motherboards, debunking Bloomberg claims that servers at Amazon and Apple were being spied upon by China.

Bad news for scammers. Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has been released on bail

Scammers want you to send $2000 to help Huawei’s CFO bribe her way out of jail.

Chinese headmaster fired after setting up his own secret cryptomining rig at school

A Chinese headmaster has lost his job after it was discovered he was stealing the school’s electricity to power a secret cryptocurrency-mining rig.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Department of Homeland Security and GCHQ back Apple and Amazon’s denials they were hacked by China

The US Department of Homeland Security and UK’s GCHQ have rallied behind the vigorous denials issued by Amazon and Apple, after Bloomberg BusinessWeek reported China had planted malicious computer chips on systems used by the tech giants.

China accused of sabotaging thousands of servers at major US companies with tiny microchips hidden on motherboards

An extraordinary report released by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which claims that China has been exploiting the supply-chain, planting a tiny microchip on servers which ended up in the server rooms of almost 30 companies, including the likes of Apple and Amazon.