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Phishing. Phishing is a form of social engineering and a scam where attackers deceive people into revealing sensitive information [1] or installing malware such as viruses, worms, adware, or ransomware. Phishing attacks have become increasingly sophisticated and often transparently mirror the site being targeted, allowing the attacker to ...
Contents. Chinese intelligence activity abroad. The Government of China is engaged in espionage overseas, directed through diverse methods via the Ministry of State Security (MSS), the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), the United Front Work Department (UFWD), People's Liberation Army (PLA) via its Intelligence Bureau of the Joint Staff ...
A pig butchering scam, a.k.a. " Sha Zhu Pan " [2] or Shazhupan, [3] (Chinese: 杀猪盘), translated as Killing Pig Game, [1] is a type of long-term scam and investment fraud in which the victim is gradually lured into making increasing contributions, usually in the form of cryptocurrency, to a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme. [4]
The Voice of America reported in April 2020 that "U.S. intelligence agencies concluded the Chinese hackers meddled in both the 2016 and 2018 elections" and said "there have already been signs that China-allied hackers have engaged in so-called "spear-phishing" attacks on American political targets" ahead of the 2020 United States elections. [89]
The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC; 中国互联网络信息中心) is a public institution affiliated with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. [1] Founded on 3 June 1997 and based in Zhongguancun, Beijing, the center manages the country-code top-level domain name of the People's Republic of China, namely the ...
Chinese phishing campaigns targeted Gmail accounts of highly ranked officials of the United States and South Korean governments and militaries, as well as Chinese political activists. [33] [34] 2012. According to Ghosh, there were "445,004 attacks in 2012 as compared to 258,461 in 2011 and 187,203 in 2010". 2013
The Office of Personnel Management data breach was a 2015 data breach targeting Standard Form 86 (SF-86) U.S. government security clearance records retained by the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). One of the largest breaches of government data in U.S. history, the attack was carried out by an advanced persistent threat based ...
Hafnium (group) (Redirected from HAFNIUM (group)) Hafnium (sometimes styled HAFNIUM; also called Silk Typhoon by Microsoft [1]) is a cyber espionage group, sometimes known as an advanced persistent threat, with alleged ties to the Chinese government. [2][3][4] Hafnium is closely connected to APT40. [5]