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US Government attributes Taidoor RAT to China. Update on hacked UK-US trade documents. Pegasus used in Togo.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published a Malware Analysis Report on “Taidoor,” a remote access Trojan that Chinese intelligence services have deployed against collection targets since 2008. The FBI and the Department of Defense concurred in the analysis, and US Cyber Command has uploaded samples of Taidoor’s code to VirusTotal. It’s been used against government agencies, corporations, and think tanks, mostly ones with an interest in Taiwan. Both FireEye and CrowdStrike have tracked Taidoor for some time; the news in this Report is the formal attribution to the Chinese government and the urgency which the US Government attaches to defense against Taidoor.
Reuters reports that papers related to UK-US trade negotiations that were leaked to the Labour Party and others during the last British general election were taken from the email account of former Conservative trade minister Liam Fox. The theft has been widely attributed to Russian intelligence services. British foreign minister Dominic Raab last month said “Russian actors” had sought to interfere in the election “through the online amplification of illicitly acquired and leaked Government documents.” An investigation into how the documents were taken is still in progress.
NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware is said, by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, to have been deployed against a Roman Catholic bishop and a priest who had advocated human rights reforms in the West African country, as well as against two members of the political opposition. Pegasus is said to have been installed through a WhatsApp exploit.
Today's issue includes events affecting Australia, Belarus, Canada, China, India, Japan, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Pakistan, Russia, Togo, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Aerospace news worthy of attention.
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