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Windows TCO: Shifting Blaming and More

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 25, 2023

=> Linux Fu: Making Progress | Ubuntu 'Types', OSCAfest 2023, and Marketing/Openwashing Fluff

Researchers Spot APTs Targeting Small Business MSPs

=> ↺ Researchers Spot APTs Targeting Small Business MSPs

Proofpoint warns that APT actors linked to Russia, Iran and North Korea are increasingly targeting small- and medium-sized businesses.

China state-sponsored actor carries out 'attack' on US critical infrastructure, Microsoft says [Ed: Microsoft puts back doors in everything and then blames China]

=> ↺ China state-sponsored actor carries out 'attack' on US critical infrastructure, Microsoft says | ↺ Microsoft puts back doors in everything and then blames China

Microsoft Catches Chinese .Gov Hackers in Guam Critical Infrastructure Orgs [Ed: Microsoft itself is the problem; stop treating Microsoft as the expert and people who use the holes as the biggest problem.]

=> ↺ Microsoft Catches Chinese .Gov Hackers in Guam Critical Infrastructure Orgs

Microsoft says it has caught Chinese government hackers siphoning data from critical infrastructure organizations in Guam, a U.S. territory in the Pacific Ocean.

Chinese Malware Hits Systems on Guam. Is Taiwan the Real Target?

=> ↺ Chinese Malware Hits Systems on Guam. Is Taiwan the Real Target?

China has never acknowledged [breaking] into American networks, even in the biggest example of all: the theft of security clearance files of roughly 22 million Americans — including six million sets of fingerprints — from the Office of Personnel Management during the Obama administration. That exfiltration of data took the better part of a year, and resulted in an agreement between President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping that resulted in a brief decline in malicious Chinese cyberactivity.

Chinese-linked hackers target critical infrastructure in US and Guam

=> ↺ Chinese-linked hackers target critical infrastructure in US and Guam

“States conduct long-term intrusions into critical infrastructure to prepare for possible conflict, because it may simply be too late to gain access when conflict arises,” said John Hultquist, the chief analyst at Mandiant Intelligence at Google Cloud, noting that “preparation does not mean that attacks are inevitable.”

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