Hackers chinos attack the speeches of EU defense groups

Hackers chinos attack VPNs that create a business platform to penetrate the digital networks of United States defense companies announced el martes el adviser en Informatics Security Mandiant.

The Mandiant information is leaked to at least one of the computer piracy groups, one of the cues considered close to the Chinese regime, with the malicious software that exploits the vulnerabilities of the VPNs (systems that allow to establish a secure connection) manufactured by the company Pulse Secure, which belongs to the group Ivanti.

The hackers will use the malware to steal the identities of the VPN users and penetrate the defense systems’ computer systems between October 2020 and March 2021, the document said.

European Governors and Financial Institutions and United States also have the object of the attack, says Mandiant, which identified one of the groups below the UNC2630 number.

“We suspect that UNC2630 will perform opera in the name of the Chinese governing body and will be able to play with APT5“A group of hackers has taken to Beijing authorities,” he said.

I added that “a trusted third party” also won APT5 in the hack.

‘APT5 regularly attacks the speeches of high-value groups “and” their preferred objectives include companies in the aeronautics and defense sector in the United States, Europe and Asia ” Mandiant indicator, which does not specify how many companies were affected.

Pulse Secure confirms the Mayor of Mandiant, and you are of the opinion that a sister of the software for the software is malicioso.

The manufacture of the VPN ensures that the attack has affected “a limited number of clients”

Previously, similar attacks were recorded in the United States, due to computer piracy, as was the case with the Microsoft company, which alerted in March that Chinese hackers were trying to gain access to users’ mail.

Computer pirates, backed by Xi Jinping’s regime, sought robbery information in various areas such as infectious disease investigations, attorneys’ offices, higher education, Defense and NGO counterparts.

Microsoft says that a group of “highly qualified and sophisticated” hackers, which was patrolled by a government and opera from China, has been robbed of information on various objective states, includes universities, defense contractors, defense attorneys and infectious disease investigators.

In an entry on the company’s official blog, its vice president for security and confidentiality of the user, Tom Burt, indicates that hackers are approving four disabilities of the system of unpredictable privacy.

Traces of the failures in the system that the hackers logarithm identify, are accessed to the server, from the cual pudieron robber information such as e-mail corrections and contacts and the installation of malignant software or malware.

There is a group of computer pirates backed by the Chinese regime attacking the systems of the Indian vaccine manufacturers that inject coronavirus into the country’s munitions campaign, according to the publication Reuters with information on what you have access to the cyber intelligence company Cyfirma.

(With information from Europa Press and Reuters)

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