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Wave of Stealthy China Cyberattacks Hits U.S., Private Networks, Google Says
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Good day. State-sponsored hackers from China have developed techniques that evade common cybersecurity tools and enable them to burrow into government and business networks and spy on victims for years without detection, researchers with Google's Mandiant division found.
Instead of infiltrating systems behind the corporate firewall, they are compromising devices on the edge of the network—sometimes firewalls themselves—and targeting software built by companies such as VMware Inc. or Citrix Systems Inc. These products run on computers that don’t typically include antivirus or endpoint detection software. Read the full story.
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Also today:
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U.S. hospitals seek government cyber help as the critical infrastructure sector most hit by ransomware
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FCC calls for blocking mobile spam
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WSJ's interview with TikTok CEO
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Small, remote hospitals plead for cybersecurity help. Rural healthcare providers need tactical and financial help from the federal government to fight hackers, security experts told lawmakers at a hearing Thursday. Attacks on medical organizations have "posed alarming threats to people in Michigan, as well as across the country," said Sen. Gary Peters (D., Mich.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
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Up to 30% of remote hospitals are losing money, making funds scarce for strengthening cybersecurity and responding to ransomware attacks prevalent in the sector, said Kate Pierce, senior virtual information security officer at cyber company Fortified Health Security. (CyberScoop)
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Curb on spam texts: Under new rules adopted Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission, mobile-service providers have to block robotext messages the agency says are highly likely to be illegal. That includes texts from numbers that shouldn’t be sending messages, such as unused and invalid numbers, as well as those that government agencies identify as not for texting. (WSJ)
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38 Billion
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Number of unauthorized attempts to connect to Pennsylvania's state government networks in one recent month, said Christopher Dressler, the state's acting CISO, during a hearing this week on the security of cloud-based storage.
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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at the company’s offices in Washington, D.C. PHOTO: ALYSSA SCHUKAR FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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“There’s no concrete plan right now.”
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— TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew said in an interview with the WSJ, referring to the prospect of an initial public offering of TikTok, which some politicians said could address their national-security concerns if it reduced Chinese ownership.
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G42, an artificial intelligence company in Abu Dhabi, recently bought a stake in TikTok estimated to be worth more than $100 million, Bloomberg reported.
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France is reportedly close to asking government officials not to use the TikTok app on their personal devices. (Bloomberg)
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The U.K. is banning TikTok on government devices, a British minister said Thursday. (Reuters)
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