We found 2 episodes of Security Conversations with the tag “china”.
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Danny Adamitis on an 'unkillable' router botnet used by Chinese .gov hackers
January 5th, 2024 | 34 mins 7 secs
china, danny adamitis, lumen technologies, volt typhoon
Episode sponsors:
- Binarly, the supply chain security experts (https://binarly.io)
- FwHunt (https://fwhunt.run)
Danny Adamitis is a principal information security engineer at Black Lotus Labs, the threat research division within Lumen Technologies. On this episode of the show, we discuss his team's recent discovery of an impossible-to-kill botnet packed with end-of-life SOHO routers serving as a covert data transfer network for Volt Typhoon, a Chinese government-backed hacking group previously caught targeting US critical infrastructure.
Danny digs into the inner workings of the botnet, the global problem end-of-life devices becoming useful tools for malicious actors, and the things network defenders can do today to mitigate threats at this layer.
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Dakota Cary on China's weaponization of software vulnerabilities
September 15th, 2023 | 55 mins 48 secs
apts, atlantic council, china, nation-state
Episode sponsors:
- Binarly (https://binarly.io)
- FwHunt (https://fwhunt.run)
Dakota Cary is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub, conducting research on China’s efforts to develop its hacking capabilities, artificial-intelligence and cybersecurity research at Chinese universities, the People’s Liberation Army’s efforts to automate software vulnerability discovery, and new policies to improve China’s cybersecurity-talent pipeline.
In this episode, Cary expands on a new report -- 'Sleight of Hand' -- that delves into the changing legal landscape for vulnerability disclosure in China, the PRC's weaponization of software vulnerabilities, nation state-backed threat actors in China and that infamous Bloomberg 'rice grain' spy chip story.