Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo has revealed that Chinese state-sponsored hackers were able to penetrate the Army National Guard network and dwell for most of 2024.
Officials from the US Treasury Department have said that the Chinese state-sponsored hackers used a stolen API key, taken from a third-party security and technical support contractor.
While a break-in by a group of Russian state sponsored hackers might initially seem understandable, the Microsoft security breach was eventually traced back to a simple password spray on a legacy test account with some questionable permissions.
Researchers has observed journalists being targeted by state-sponsored hackers from China, North Korea, Turkey and Iran. Cyber espionage campaigns focused on looking for identities of anonymous sources and any “off-the-record” information.
Campaign run by a group of state-sponsored hackers appears to have been passing data-siphoning spyware through approved apps in Google Play Store for years.