A Chinese state-backed cybergang known as Flax Typhoon spent more than a year burrowing inside an ArcGIS server, quietly turning the trusted mapping software into a covert backdoor.… Researchers at ...

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.

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 researchers have uncovered how a state-linked espionage group quietly turned a trusted ArcGIS plugin into a remote shell, maintaining access for over a year and even infecting system backups.

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 ...

The quote from ESRI was updated since time of publication to correct attribution. REDMOND, Wash., and REDLANDS, Calif. — July 29, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. and ESRI today announced that ESRI ArcGIS users ...