Agencies, IT companies impacted by latest malware from China CISA is telling agencies, IT companies and critical infrastructure providers to take action to protect themselves from ‘terribly sophisticated’ malware. Jason Miller@jmillerWFED December 4, 2025 5:06 pm 4 min read Hackers sponsored by China are targeting federal agencies, technology companies and critical infrastructure sector organizations with…
Spyware continues to become more sophisticated and evade the security guardrails put in place by device manufacturers like Samsung. A new report indicates how a spyware delivered via WhatsApp infected an unknown number of Galaxy devices in the Middle East for over a year. Images sent via WhatsApp were the delivery method for this spyware…
Because blasters operate outside of traditional mobile networks, the messages they send are not subject to the security measures that have been put in place by mobile providers. “None of our security controls apply to the messages that phones receive from them,” says Anton Reynaldo Bonifacio, the chief information security officer and chief AI officer…
Diplomats in Southeast Asia were targeted in a cyber-espionage campaign earlier this year, likely waged in support of operations aligned with the strategic interests of China, according to Google. The attacks, using social engineering and malware disguised as innocuous software updates, are attributed to the China-linked UNC6384 group, Alphabet Inc.’s Google Threat Intelligence Group said…
Mobile cybersecurity company Lookout is reportedly warning travelers to China that their mobile phones could be seized and their data could be extracted from those devices by the country’s authorities. Chinese authorities are using new malware that enables them to extract data from devices to which they have physical access, TechCrunch reported Wednesday (July 16),…
A new version of the Android malware Godfather creates isolated virtual environments on mobile devices to steal account details and transactions from legitimate banking apps. These malicious apps run within a controlled virtual environment on the device. This enables real-time spying, theft of login credentials, and manipulation of transactions, while the visual display appears completely…