Cybersecurity agencies from eight countries have issued a warning that China-based hackers have been accessing government networks—and doing it with great efficiency.
@ecksmc: The 1990s called and want to remind the US federal, state, and local governments and industry that we fucking warned them back then that this shit was happening and that if they continued doing fuck-all about it it was only going to get worse and worse.
@ecksmc this is bad.
' APT40 exploits vulnerable small-office and home-office devices as a launching pad for attacks. Once compromised, these soho devices offer a launchpad for attacks that can blend in with legitimate traffic. '
Australia, the U.S., the U.K., Canada, New Zealand, Germany, the Republic of Korea and Japan says that APT40—also known as Kryptonite Panda, Gingham Typhoon, Leviathan and Bronze Mohawk—is responsible for attacks against Australian government and private sector networks as well as in the United States. The group has previously been attributed by the U.K. as being part of the Chinese Ministry of State Security