Poland restricts Chinese-made cars at protected military sites
Poland’s military leadership has decided that cars manufactured in the People’s Republic of China will no longer cross the gates of sensitive military bases. The decision …
Apple privacy labels often don’t match what Chinese smart home apps do
Smart home devices in many homes collect audio, video, and location data. The apps that control those devices often focus on the account owner, even when the technology also …
Notepad++ supply chain attack: Researchers reveal details, IoCs, targets
Rapid7 researchers have attributed the recent hijacking of the Notepad++ update mechanism to Lotus Blossom (aka Billbug), a Chinese state-sponsored group known for targeting …
Ex-Google engineer found guilty of stealing AI secrets
A federal jury in California convicted former Google software engineer Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of …
Cisco fixes AsyncOS vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks (CVE-2025-20393)
Cisco has finally shipped security updates for its Email Security Gateway and Secure Email and Web Manager devices, which fix CVE-2025-20393, a vulnerability in the …
Group Policy abuse reveals China-aligned espionage group targeting governments
ESET Research has identified a previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat group that uses Windows Group Policy to deploy malware and move through victim …
Cisco email security appliances rooted and backdoored via still unpatched zero-day
A suspected Chinese-nexus threat group has been compromising Cisco email security devices and planting backdoors and log-purging tools on them since at least late November …
Offensive cyber power is spreading fast and changing global security
Offensive cyber activity has moved far beyond a handful of major powers. More governments now rely on digital operations to project influence during geopolitical tension, …
Threat group reroutes software updates through hacked network gear
Sometimes an attack hides in the most ordinary corner of a network. ESET researchers say a China aligned threat group known as PlushDaemon has been quietly using hacked …
Russia-linked hackers intensify attacks as global APT activity shifts
State-aligned hacking groups have spent the past six months ramping up espionage, sabotage, and cybercrime campaigns across multiple regions, according to ESET’s APT Activity …
Unpatched Windows vulnerability continues to be exploited by APTs (CVE-2025-9491)
A Windows vulnerability (CVE-2025-9491, aka ZDI-CAN-25373) that state-sponsored threat actors and cybercrime groups have been quietly leveraging since at least 2017 continues …
Sanctions won’t stop cyberattacks, but they can still “bite”
Sanctions are one of the tools Western governments use when they want to hit back at state-sponsored cyber threat actors. But do they actually work? That’s the question a …