{"id":100081,"date":"2019-12-23T17:09:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T01:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/chinese-hackers-bypass-2fa-in-attacks-spanning-10-countries"},"modified":"2019-12-23T17:09:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T01:09:08","slug":"chinese-hackers-bypass-2fa-in-attacks-spanning-10-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/chinese-hackers-bypass-2fa-in-attacks-spanning-10-countries","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Hackers Bypass 2FA in Attacks Spanning 10 Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-hackers-bypass-2fa-in-attacks-spanning-10-countries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Chinese hacking group believed to operate on behalf of the Beijing government has learned how to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) in attacks on government and industry targets, ZDNet <a class=\"\" data-ga=\"[[\u201d Embedded Url\u201d,\u201d External link\u201d,\u201d https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/chinese-hacker-group-caught-bypassing-2fa\/\u201d,{\u201cmetric25\u201d:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/chinese-hacker-group-caught-bypassing-2fa\/\">reported<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The group, known as APT20, has reportedly sought to compromise VPN credentials that would grant them heightened levels of access across their victims\u2019 networks, according to ZDNet, citing a <a class=\"\" data-ga=\"[[\u201d Embedded Url\u201d,\u201d External link\u201d,\u201d https:\/\/www.fox-it.com\/en\/news\/whitepapers\/operation-wocao-shining-a-light-on-one-of-chinas-hidden-hacking-groups\/\u201d,{\u201cmetric25\u201d:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox-it.com\/en\/news\/whitepapers\/operation-wocao-shining-a-light-on-one-of-chinas-hidden-hacking-groups\/\">new report<\/a> from Dutch cyber-security firm Fox-IT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese hacking group believed to operate on behalf of the Beijing government has learned how to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) in attacks on government and industry targets, ZDNet reported on Monday. The group, known as APT20, has reportedly sought to compromise VPN credentials that would grant them heightened levels of access across their victims\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}