An advanced persistent threat (APT) group, Flax Typhoon, was able to gain persistent access to the mapping tool ArcGIS for over a year, putting several enterprises at risk. ArcGIS is a geospatial ...

Security teams have been urged to adopt proactive threat hunting after a new report revealed how Chinese hackers used novel techniques to turn trusted software components into persistent backdoors.

Chinese state hackers remained undetected in a target environment for more than a year by turning a component in the ArcGIS geo-mapping tool into a web shell. The ArcGIS geographic information system ...