{"id":1666513,"date":"2022-09-30T11:05:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1666513"},"modified":"2022-09-30T11:06:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:06:47","slug":"exclusive-suspected-chinese-hackers-tampered-with-widely-used-canadian-chat-program-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-suspected-chinese-hackers-tampered-with-widely-used-canadian-chat-program-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive-Suspected Chinese hackers tampered with widely used Canadian chat program -researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-suspected-chinese-hackers-tampered-with-widely-used-canadian-chat-program-researchers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1666513&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) \u2013     Suspected Chinese hackers tampered with widely used software distributed by a small Canadian customer service company, another example of a \u201csupply chain compromise\u201d made infamous by the hack on U.S. networking company SolarWinds.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike will say in an upcoming blog post seen by Reuters that it had discovered malicious software being distributed by Vancouver-based Comm100, which provides customer service products, such as chat bots and social media management tools, to a range of clients around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>The scope and scale of the hack wasn\u2019t immediately clear. In a message, Comm100 said it had fixed its software earlier Thursday and that more details would soon be forthcoming. The company did not immediately respond to follow-up requests for information. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0CrowdStrike researchers believe the malicious software was in circulation for a couple of days but wouldn\u2019t say how many companies had been affected, divulging only that \u201centities across a range of industries\u201d were hit. <\/p>\n<p>Comm100 on its website said it had more than 15,000 customers in some 80 countries.<\/p>\n<p>CrowdStrike executive Adam Meyers said in a telephone interview that the hackers involved were suspected to be Chinese, citing the hackers\u2019 patterns of behavior, language in the code, and the fact that one of the hack\u2019s victims had repeatedly been targeted by Chinese hackers in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately return messages seeking comment. Beijing regularly denies such allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Supply chain compromises \u2013 which work by tampering with a widely used piece of software in order to hack its users downstream \u2013 have been of increasing concern since alleged Russian hackers broke into Texas IT management firm SolarWinds Corp and used it as a springboard to hack U.S. government agencies and a host of private firms.<\/p>\n<p>Meyers \u2013 whose firm was among those that responded to the SolarWinds hack \u2013 said the Comm100 find was a reminder that other nations used the same techniques.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cChina is engaging in supply chain attacks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing; Editing by Chris Sanders and Jonathan Oatis)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/exclusive-suspected-chinese-hackers-tampered\/attachment\/illustration-shows-printed-chinese-and-canada-flags\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8T0T9-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8T0T9-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) \u2013 Suspected Chinese hackers tampered with widely used software distributed by a small Canadian customer service company, another example of a \u201csupply<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}