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GT investigates: Hacking China’s medical institutes at COVID-19 outbreak, targeting aerospace firms during China’s space missions – Cyberattacks from India disclosed

November 5, 2021/in Internet Security

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Evil flower in South Asia, lure of beauty, ghost war elephants roaming the Himalayas … To many people, these fantastic code names could only be heard in thrilling hacker movies.

It turns out that they are real groups from India with possible intelligence background and state support. Investigations conducted by several of China’s leading cybersecurity companies have revealed a sophisticated network: they have constantly attacked defense and military units as well as state-owned enterprises in China, Nepal and Pakistan over the past few years, and such attacks are on the rise under new disguises of international trendy topics.

These groups are normally known as Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) organizations made up of hackers with government support which focuses on persistent network attacks against specific targets. APT organizations are spread in the world, with many having been active in attacks against key infrastructure and government departments for years.

Chinese cybersecurity analysts and diplomatic relations observers often mention that the next world war will be fought not on the ground, or in the air or under water, but virtually in the cyberspace.

China has been victims of cyberattacks for many years and the rising attacks from India once again revealed the severity of the situation and the urgency to speed up building of a cybersecurity safeguard system.

Cyberattacks from South Asian regions, mainly India, target China’s key industries. Graphic: Feng Qingyin/GT

Accurate attacks with varying tactics

India is a country that might be overlooked as a threat by the world intelligence community. Even other countries in South Asia may not be fully aware of its advanced cyber capabilities.

“Since March, we have detected several phishing activities targeting government, defense and military units, as well as state-owned enterprises in China, Pakistan, and Nepal,” Antiy Labs, one of China’s renowned cybersecurity companies, said in a statement sent to the Global Times.

The organization behind the attacks is from India and its activities can be traced back to as early as April 2019. So far, more than 100 phishing counterfeit websites created by the…

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Handling Setbacks in the Time of COVID-19

October 29, 2021/in Mobile Security

Most security experts, IT workers and leaders understand that the pandemic brought a decline in business and digital safety. A big part of that is the rush to get set up at home and establish remote work security. But why, exactly? It turns out that surprising factors degraded the security of the remote workforce.

Let’s start with the most obvious: remote work security. The pandemic ushered in a sudden and unplanned experiment with remote work at scale. First, employees stopped working in physically secure locations inside firewalls with approved devices and started working from home. It’s something of a cliche to say that remote work expands the attack surface. But the fallout of this is just now becoming clear. The change brought a lot of remote work security challenges.

Remote Work Security Factors: Poorly Vetted Tools

The rush to remote work demanded new tools, but employers didn’t have time to vet that tech for safety. As a result, apps and services are, on average, less secure than they used to be. Nearly three-quarters (74%) of 1,300 security leaders surveyed by Forrester Consulting say recent cyber attacks come from vulnerabilities in tech deployed during the pandemic.

More Shadow IT

Employers literally leave their people to their own devices when working at home. Many employees are being creative about which devices they use for work, threatening remote home security. Remote employees connect over home networks that also serve smart thermostats, connected toys, home entertainment systems, gaming consoles and many random home Internet of Things (IoT) devices. These devices are likely to lack physical security and tend to be rarely or never updated.

Lack of Visibility

Making matters worse, organizations lack visibility into the home networks of remote staff. This, in turn, creates barriers to organizational cybersecurity.

Increased Use of Cloud Services

Another huge problem, whose scale the security company Zscaler recently uncovered, is that large companies often have hundreds of cloud servers exposed to the public internet. By “exposed,” they mean that anyone can connect if they can find the services. Many…

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Impact of Covid-19 On Digital Security Market 2021

October 11, 2021/in Mobile Security

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