Cyber espionage is a powerful tool in modern warfare. It can be used to spy on prominent individuals like political leaders, government officials, and business heads, spread disinformation, and even ...

As a result of some tremendous work done by researchers at the University of Toronto, we now know that there is an enormous network of compromised machines in more than 100 countries around the world, ...

In Monday’s IT Blogwatch, GhostNet researchers unravel spyware from China; some do, and some do not, blame the Chinese government. Not to mention Bet Smart … Jeremy Kirk fills us in on the details: A ...

Nearly three months after a report detailed an extensive, worldwide cyber espionage operation, many countries that were hacked may not have been formally notified yet. Legal barriers have hampered ...

Stories about the Conficker worm have been spreading, worm-like, through both online and offline media, while the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto has documented an extensive espionage botnet ...

Chinese officials last week denied suggestions that China’s government is involved in a cyberespionage ring that has attacked foreign government computers from servers mostly based in that country.

The high-profile disclosure over the weekend of the GhostNet cyberespionage ring that targeted 1295 computers in more than 100 countries underscores how highly targeted and sophisticated attacks, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about Asia, especially the Chinese economy. In a report released on Sunday by the Munk Centre at the University of Toronto ...

The people who uncovered GhostNet, an extensive cyber espionage network that targeted the Tibetan exile community, are back with a sequel. Starting with an infected machine that was found during that ...