Enlarge Researchers have discovered a never-before-seen backdoor for Linux that’s being used by a threat actor linked to the Chinese government. The new backdoor originates from a Windows backdoor named Trochilus, which was first seen in 2015 by researchers from Arbor Networks, now known as Netscout. They said …

Enlarge (credit: Steve McDowell / Agefotostock ) Hacking teams working for the Chinese government are intent on burrowing into the farthest reaches of sensitive infrastructure, much of it belonging to the US, and establishing permanent presences there if possible. In the past two years, they have scored some wins that could …

Researchers have spotted notable code overlap between the Sunburst backdoor and a known Turla weapon. [...]

Researchers at Recorded Future report a rise in cracked Cobalt Strike and other open-source adversarial tools with easy-to-use interfaces. [...]