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Source: Chris Howes/Wild Places Photography via Alamy Stock Photo A China-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) group dubbed Flax Typhoon has installed a web of persistent, long-term infections inside dozens of Taiwanese organizations, likely to carry out an extensive cyber espionage campaign — and it did it using only minimal amounts of malware.

BLACK HAT USA – Las Vegas – Wednesday, Aug. 9 In a summer where extreme weather across the globe has intensified discussions around climate change and what to do about it, cybersecurity has been somewhat mum on the subject. But the reality is, there are plenty of steps that the infosecurity community can take in order to do its part. That's the word from Chloé Messdaghi, head of threat research at Protect AI.

The Storm-0558 breach that gave Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) actors access to emails within at least 25 US government agencies could be much further-reaching and impactful than anyone anticipated, potentially placing a much broader swathe of Microsoft cloud services at risk than previously thought. But the lack of authentication logging at many organizations means that the full scope of actual compromise stemming from the situation will take weeks, if not months, to determine.