The advanced persistent threat group also relied on SOCKS proxies like SoftEther VPN, tunneling tools that act as a middleman between victim and attacker.

Xu Zewei is accused of participating in a Chinese government hacking group that broke into thousands of U.S. organizations and stole COVID-19-related research.

Microsoft is rolling out an Office update in the last week of May 2026 that lets users move the floating Copilot button out of their documents and back to the ribbon.

FBI Directo Kash Patel says the FBI arrested alleged Chinese hacker Xu Zewei, accused of targeting U.S. universities and COVID-19 vaccine research for Beijing.

On May 19 GitHub confirmed the security breach across its social media channels, verifying that there was unauthorized access to internal repositories and stating that it was monitoring the situation ...

GitHub hack exposed 3,800 internal repos through a poisoned VS Code extension, raising new concerns over developer supply ...

GitHub is investigating an alleged breach after TeamPCP claimed access to nearly 4,000 private repositories, though no impact ...

ORGANIZATIONS worldwide face a rapidly evolving cyberthreat landscape shaped by artificial intelligence, insider risks and ...

Eset says China-aligned Webworm added Discord- and Microsoft Graph-based backdoors, custom proxies and cloud-staged malware ...

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit has taken down the infrastructure of Fox Tempest, a prolific cybercrime-enabling threat group ...

Google said Monday that it had disrupted a criminal group’s attempt to use artificial intelligence to exploit another company’s previously unknown digital vulnerability, adding to heightened worries ...