China Hackers Breached Foreign Ministers' Emails, Palo Alto Says (insurancejournal.com)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/30/1655230/china-hackers-breached-foreign-ministers-emails-palo-alto-says
- Source link: https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2025/09/30/841090.htm
> Attackers accessed Microsoft Exchange email servers, gaining the ability to search for information at some foreign ministries, said the team at Unit 42, the threat intelligence division of Palo Alto Networks, which has been tracking the group for nearly three years.
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> Hackers specifically searched in the email servers for key terms related to a China-Arab summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2022, said Lior Rochberger, senior researcher at the company. They also searched for names such as including Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, in the context of that summit, the researchers said. The researchers declined to specifically identify which countries had their systems breached in the hacking campaign, but wrote in the report that the group's targeting patterns "align consistently with the People's Republic of China (PRC) economic and geopolitical interests."
[1] https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2025/09/30/841090.htm
China-Arab summit participants (Score:3)
Participating in the summit: the Arab League (except Syria): Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco. Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.
Stop using Microsoft Exchange? (Score:1)
We had email before Exchange.
Is it POSSIBLE there is another way?
I know this is big ask, but try thinking for yourself. Crazy huh?
Chumps, Management, MBAs, have lost the ability to conceptualize beyond what tools provide.
It used to be the difference between University and College. At college you were trained in tools that industry used, so you could become a plug in widget. University was the place where you (supposedly) learned to think. You would hire university grads to design, solve problems, whereas yo
"Microsoft Exchange ...." (Score:1)
Found the problem.
Re: (Score:2)
And found a Stockholm-syndrome sufferer with mod-points. How pathetic.
Same old, same old. (Score:3)
Countries have been spying on each other for, well, forever.
Some countries are just better at it then others.
That the PRC has worked to be good at it is not a surprise.
That the campaign was identified suggests the PRC teams still have some work ahead of them to avoid detection in the future.