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ZERO-DAYS IN EDGE DEVICES BECOME CHINA'S CYBER WARFARE TACTIC OF CHOICE

While China is already among the world's most formidable threat actors, a focus
on exploiting public-facing appliances makes its state-sponsored APTs more
dangerous than ever.
Jeffrey Schwartz
Contributing Writer, Dark Reading
November 14, 2023
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The government of China has become considerably more proficient in exploiting
zero-day vulnerabilities to achieve their espionage goals in the past five
years, posing an alarming persistent threat to organizations throughout the
world. Now, the country's nation-state actors are increasingly exploiting novel
vulnerabilities in public-facing devices, notably edge appliances.



In fact, an estimated 85% of known zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by Chinese
state-sponsored groups since 2021 have targeted public-facing appliances,
including firewalls, enterprise VPNs, hypervisors, load balancers, and email
security tools, according a recent report published by Insikt Group, the threat
intelligence research arm of Recorded Future.

Their success is underpinned by threat sharing and support apparatus, according
to Insikt. "The observed sharing of malware and exploit capabilities across
Chinese state-sponsored actors is likely enabled by both upstream capability
developers and wider domestic policy around software vulnerability discovery and
weaponization," the report stated.

The approach has helped China transform into a much stealthier adversary,
according to the findings, and therefore trickier to defend against.



Specifically, many of these devices and appliances have limited visibility,
logging capabilities, and support for traditional security solutions.
"Organizations should consider these factors when initially procuring network
appliances in order to enhance the ability to detect and respond to threats,"
according to the report.

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"For CISOs, this highlights the importance of looking beyond threat actors
gaining initial access and ensuring they have the means to detect and respond to
such an eventuality," says Mark Kelly, principal threat intelligence analyst at
Recorded Future. "Given that a lot of these public-facing appliances often have
very limited support for traditional security solutions, they should also
consider these factors when initially procuring these types of devices."


CHINA: THE BROADEST THREAT TO US NATIONAL SECURITY

The findings come as leaders from governments around the world have raised the
highest alarms to date about their concerns about China’s cyber warfare
capabilities.

"The People's Republic of China represents the defining threat of this
generation, this era," FBI director Christopher Wray told 60 Minutes last month
in regards to its cyber activities. "There is no country that presents a
broader, more comprehensive threat to our ideas, our innovation, our economic
security, and ultimately our national security."



Wray was among the representatives for Five Eyes, an alliance of intelligence
leaders formed after World War II, who appeared together on the segment to call
out their concerns about China's cyber capabilities. Besides the US, the Five
Eyes alliance includes Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia.

Melissa Hathaway, who led the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative
(CNCI) for President George W. Bush and the Cyberspace Policy Review for
President Barack Obama, is also concerned about China's ambitions.

"They are a leading cyber power and have probably more manpower, of meeting
their overall national objectives than we do in the United States or anywhere,"
says Hathaway, now president of Hathaway Global Strategies, which advises
companies on cybersecurity. "Part of that is a percentage of the population, but
they have made it a strategic priority as part of their five-year plan, and as
part of their overall strategies."

Intelligence and cyber professionals are also concerned about the Belt and Road
Initiative, China's ambitious investment in infrastructure throughout the world,
which could bring its attackers even closer to its targets, geographically and
economically.

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