A major hack of the State and Commerce departments last year, also attributed to Chinese cyberspies, was enabled in part by an outdated signing key that Microsoft failed to secure, according to an ...

Presidential campaigns and the US telecommunications network have also been targeted by hackers in recent months.

The espionage hack of at least nine American telecommunication firms — including giants AT&T and Verizon — targeted the Trump ...

The Treasury learned of the hacking on December ... campaign that originates in China. The investigation started in the summer following alerts from Microsoft, which named the hacker group Salt ...

Flax Typhoon, first outed by Microsoft several months later in an August 2023 report, is another China-backed hacking group, which officials say has operated under the guise of a publicly traded ...

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions against a Chinese cybersecurity ...

A Chinese state-sponsored cyberattack on the U.S. Treasury Department, compromising workstations and unclassified documents. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Experts welcome economic sanctions against gang believed to be behind telecom hacks, but warn tougher action is needed.

The timelines for implementation laid out by the order seem “arbitrary,” he said, given the immediacy of the threats from China ... officials in May of 2023, Microsoft said at the time.

The FBI hacked about 4,200 computers across the US as part of an operation to find and delete PlugX, a malware used by state-backed hackers in China to steal information from victims, the ...

Since then, another new China-backed hacking group called “Salt Typhoon ... to mobilize,” according to the then-FBI director. Microsoft first identified Volt Typhoon in May 2023, finding ...