From The Hacker News – UAT-5918 Targets Taiwan’s Critical Infrastructure Using Web Shells and Open-Source Tools

From The Hacker News – UAT-5918 Targets Taiwan’s Critical Infrastructure Using Web Shells and Open-Source Tools

Threat hunters have uncovered a new threat actor named UAT-5918 that has been attacking critical infrastructure entities in Taiwan since at least 2023. "UAT-5918, a threat actor believed to be motivated by establishing long-term access for information theft, uses a combination of web shells and open-sourced tooling to conduct post-compromise activities to establish persistence in victim
From The Hacker News – China-Linked Silk Typhoon Expands Cyber Attacks to IT Supply Chains for Initial Access

From The Hacker News – China-Linked Silk Typhoon Expands Cyber Attacks to IT Supply Chains for Initial Access

The China-lined threat actor behind the zero-day exploitation of security flaws in Microsoft Exchange servers in January 2021 has shifted its tactics to target the information technology (IT) supply chain as a means to obtain initial access to corporate networks. That's according to new findings from the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team, which said the Silk Typhoon (formerly Hafnium) hacking