Chinese Cyberspies Targeted Japanese Political Entities Ahead of Elections

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A Chinese cyberespionage group known as MirrorFace has been observed targeting Japanese political entities ahead of the House of Councillors election in July 2022.

Believed to have ties with APT10, MirrorFace is known for the targeting of academic institutions, defense-related firms, diplomatic organizations, media companies, and think tanks in Japan.

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Email Hack Hits 15,000 Business Customers of Australian Telecoms Firm TPG

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Australia’s TPG Telecom this week announced that a threat actor has gained unauthorized access to a service hosting the email accounts of 15,000 customers.

The second largest telecommunications company in the country, TPG Telecom was formerly known as Vodafone Hutchison Australia, but was renamed after its merger with TPG.

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Hacker Claims Breach of FBI’s Critical-Infrastructure Portal

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A hacker who reportedly posed as the CEO of a financial institution claims to have obtained access to the more than 80,000-member database of InfraGard, an FBI-run outreach program that shares sensitive information on national security and cybersecurity threats with public officials and private sector actors who run U.S. critical infrastructure.

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Google Announces Vulnerability Scanner for Open Source Developers

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Google this week announced OSV-Scanner, a free scanner that open source developers can use to receive vulnerability details relevant to their projects.

The high number of dependencies that software projects rely on increases the risk of falling victim to a supply chain attack or to the exploitation of unknown vulnerabilities.

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