Chinese Hackers – TheCyberThrone

Williams & Connolly Breached Using Zero‑Day Exploit

Williams & Connolly, one of America’s most prominent law firms, has confirmed a cybersecurity breach attributed to Chinese state‑sponsored hackers. The attackers exploited a previously unknown zero‑day vulnerability to infiltrate the firm’s…

PravinKarthik October 13, 2025

Chinese UNC5221 Exploitation of Ivanti Connect Secure

UNC5221 is an advanced and highly sophisticated espionage group believed to have ties to China. This group has demonstrated significant expertise in targeting edge devices and exploiting critical vulnerabilities to…

PravinKarthik April 4, 2025

Chinese Threat Actors Exploiting ConnectWise & F5 Vulnerabilities

Researchers have observed that the threat actors linked to China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) exploited known bugs in popular edge appliances to compromise hundreds of organizations, including U.S. and…

PravinKarthik March 26, 2024

BlackTech Havoc’s Organizations with Cisco Router Bug

Researchers have spotted a Chinese threat actor quietly manipulating Cisco routers to breach multinational organizations in the US and Japan. The threat actor dubbed as BlackTech has been foind replacing device…

PravinKarthik September 29, 2023

Microsoft Analysis Report on Key Forge and Compromise

Microsoft has revealed that alleged Chinese hackers who breached email accounts belonging to U.S. government agencies, including the State Department, earlier this year did so by compromising the account of a Microsoft…

PravinKarthik September 7, 2023

Barracuda ESG Vulnerability CVE-2023-2868 still remains a sweet plot

Mandiant researchers have warned that alleged Chinese attackers have and are continuing to target a zero-day vulnerability in Barracuda devices. The vulnerability in Barracuda’s Email Security Gateway – tracked as…

PravinKarthik August 30, 2023

Volt Typhoon – Chinese Threat Actor Targetting US Infra

Researchers at Microsoft detailed a sophisticated cyberattack aimed at critical U.S. infrastructure, orchestrated by an alleged China-based state-sponsored actor. The threat actor goes by the name, Volt Typhoon, has been…

PravinKarthik May 25, 2023

PlugX Malware is being employed in USB by Black Basta Ransomware

Researchers has shared their findings about an operation responding to a Black Basta ransomware compromise has revealed the use of a new wormable PlugX malware variant that can automatically infect…

PravinKarthik January 30, 2023