Typhoon-like gang slinging TLS certificate 'signed' by the Los Angeles Police Department

A stealthy, ongoing campaign to gain long-term access to networks bears all the markings of intrusions conducted by China’s ‘Typhoon’ crews and has infected at least 1,000 devices, primarily in the US and South East, according to SecurityScorecard's Strike threat intel analysts. And it uses a phony certificate purportedly signed …

[Anonymous Coward]

Seem counterproductive

Who is going to trust anything from LA's biggest gang ?

[Anonymous Coward]

why LAPD?

Is it because LAPD bought a 10 year CA certificate?

[Anonymous Coward]

"primarily in the US and South East"

South East of where? South East Asia? South East of the World? (i.e. AUS/NZ) South East of the Americas?

Sounds like it should have said "South East Asia" from reading the rest of the article.

[ITMA]

Sounds like the BBC with their infamous "since records began" but almost never stating when that was.

Such as "X is rthe highest level since records began" - when was that? 100 years ago, 10 years ago, a week last Thursday, yesterday afternoon?

[Anonymous Coward]

""since records began" but almost never stating when that was."

According to Wikipedia, records first began in 1892 (13 cm diameter made from Shellac)

[Stephen7Eastern]

Five geographic regions — the US (352 victims), Japan (256 victims), South Korea (226 victims), Taiwan (80 victims), and Hong Kong (37 victims) — make up about 90 percent of the entire ORB network.

[pogul]

Are they called ORBs because they like to run on little fluffy clouds?

Curious though, is this different to a botnet?

[kmorwath]

"appear to favor targeting Linux-based systems in their operations"

Yet people here believe Linux is secure by default...

[TeeCee]

ORB?

I thought that those were those little, round light blotches that wander around on your webcam footage like deranged UFOs when an insect flies past the lens at night.

[steviebuk]

Re: ORB?

Or in the bullshit world, I mean, spiritual, con people out of money world, "ghosts".

[steviebuk]

Easy

Will be for them now that the orange idiot got rid the IT security departments.