{"id":111338,"date":"2020-08-14T11:25:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/vatican-allegedly-hacked"},"modified":"2020-08-14T12:06:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T19:06:49","slug":"vatican-allegedly-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/vatican-allegedly-hacked","title":{"rendered":"Vatican allegedly hacked by Chinese state-backed cyber gang\u2019 ahead of talks intended to improve relations between the two sides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vatican-allegedly-hacked.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Vatican and the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong have been the targets of alleged Chinese state-backed hackers, it has emerged, just weeks before talks intended to improve relations between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S.-based cyber attack monitoring group Recorded Future, RedDelta, allegedly backed by the Chinese state, began attacking the Vatican in May ahead of upcoming talks in September to renew a landmark 2018 deal that helped thaw diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n<p>Recorded Future said that the Hong Kong Study Mission to China \u2014 a key link between the Vatican and China \u2014 and the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions also were targeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican and the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong have been the targets of alleged Chinese state-backed hackers, it has emerged, just weeks before talks intended to improve relations between the two sides. According to the U.S.-based cyber attack monitoring group Recorded Future, RedDelta, allegedly backed by the Chinese state, began attacking the Vatican in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111338","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=111338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111341,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111338\/revisions\/111341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}