Nation-State Threats
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Google Disrupts Decade-Long Chinese Cyberespionage Campaign That Hijacked Google Sheets to Spy on 53 Telecoms and Governments Across 42 Countries
Google and Mandiant exposed UNC2814, a China-nexus threat actor that used a novel backdoor called GRIDTIDE to abuse Google Sheets as command-and-control infrastructure, breaching telecoms and government agencies across three continents since at least 2017.
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Chinese Hackers Exploited a Maximum-Severity Dell Zero-Day for Nearly Two Years Before Discovery
A hardcoded-credential flaw in Dell RecoverPoint rated CVSS 10.0 let Chinese spies deploy three malware families and hide inside VMware infrastructure since mid-2024.
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CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Rip Out Unsupported Edge Devices as Nation-State Hackers Exploit Aging Firewalls and Routers
Binding Operational Directive 26-02 gives agencies 18 months to inventory and replace end-of-life firewalls, routers, and switches that advanced threat actors are actively exploiting.
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