Chinese Hackers Are Hiding in Routers in the US and Japan

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, the company behind the gunshot-detection system ShotSpotter, is acquiring some assets—including patents, customers, and employees—from the firm Geolitica, which developed the notorious predictive policing software PredPol.

Plus, there's more. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click the headlines to read the full stories, and stay safe out there.A China-linked hacking group, dubbed BlackTech, is compromising routers in the US and Japan, secretly modifying their firmware and moving around company networks, according to a.

Chinese government hackers had breached the cloud-based Outlook email systems of about 25 organizations

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