Massive Chinese Cyberattack Expose Western Defense Networks: Dutch Intelligence

On June 10, the Dutch National Cyber Security Center revealed that the COATHANGER cyber campaign, linked to China, breached 20,000 defense and government systems across Western countries.

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The Dutch government claims that a cyber campaign with ties to China that breached a defense network in the country last year is far more widespread than previously believed and has affected tens of thousands of defense and government systems in Western countries.

The COATHANGER campaign, which took use of a zero-day vulnerability in the FortiGate firewall system used by the Netherlands and other countries on several government networks, has been connected to communist China. When a software update is initially released, zero-day vulnerabilities are present.

Prince, a member of the hacking group Red Hacker Alliance who refused to give his real name, uses a website that monitors global cyberattacks on his computer at their office in Dongguan, Gua...