China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) has doubled down on claims that the threat actor known as the Volt Typhoon is a fabrication of the US and its allies. The agency, in collaboration with the National Engineering Laboratory for Computer Virus Prevention Technology, accused the US federal government, intelligence agencies, and Five Eyes countries of conducting cyber espionage activities against China, France, Germany, Japan, and internet users globally. Remember, t
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China’s Computer Virus Emergency Response Center has released part three of a running series claiming that the US government is actually behind Volt Typhoon activity, rather than China. The latest CVERC report, whose front page includes an oddly edited photo with the text “Lie to Me,” provides no new evidence of these claims and rehashes old, leaked US intelligence documents. However, this CVERC report is not useless. The CVERC report tells us more about China’s intentions than it does convin
Recent examination has connected a string of assaults against vital infrastructure in the US and India to the Chinese state-sponsored hacker collective Volt Typhoon. These assaults, which took use of flaws in software created by a startup company in California, have sparked concerns about the vulnerability of vital systems including communications networks, water facilities, and the electrical grid. The fact that US agencies are still on high alert despite denials from the Chinese government
The attached US DHS CISA fact sheet provides an overview for executive leaders on the urgent risk posed by People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber actors known as “Volt Typhoon.” CISA—along with the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and other US government and international partners1—released a major advisory on 7 February 2024, in which the U.S. authoring agencies warned cybersecurity defenders that Volt Typhoon has been pre-positioning t
Hackers from the People's Republic of China spent up to five years in US networks as part of a cyber operation that targeted US critical infrastructure, law enforcement and international agencies said earlier this week. "The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) assess that People's Republic of China (PRC) state sponsored cyber actors are seeking to preposition themselves on IT networks for disruptive o
The newly discovered Chinese nation-state actor known as Volt Typhoon has been observed to be active in the wild since at least mid-2020, with the hacking crew linked to never-before-seen tradecraft to retain remote access to targets of interest. The adversary consistently employed ManageEngine Self-service Plus exploits to gain initial access, followed by custom web shells for persistent access and Living-off-the-Land (LotL) techniques for lateral movement. Another name for this threat is Van
The United States and international cybersecurity authorities are issuing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to highlight a recently discovered cluster of activity of interest associated with a People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber actor, also known as Volt Typhoon. Private sector partners have identified that this activity affects networks across US critical infrastructure sectors, and the authoring agencies believe the actor could apply the same techniques against these
