Cybersecurity research firm SentinelOne has identified more than 10 patents held by companies that are associated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-backed hacking campaign known as Hafnium, or Silk Typhoon, revealing “highly intrusive forensics and data collection technologies.”
“These technologies offer strong, often previously unreported offensive capabilities, from acquisition of encrypted endpoint data, mobile forensics, to collecting traffic from network devices,” the researchers wrote in a July 30 report.
The report came on the heels of the Justice Department (DOJ) unsealing a 2023 indictment against two hackers with the Chinese Ministry of State Security’s Shanghai State Security Bureau.
The indictment named Xu Zewei and Zhang Yu as part of Silk Typhoon, revealing also the names of companies at which the hackers worked and details about how Chinese state-backed cyber campaigns are structured….
Patents Related to CCP-Backed Silk Typhoon Hackers Reveal Capabilities
