“TapTap is disrupting how games are distributed in China with its community-focused platform and 0% take rate fee on IAP,” Niko Partners senior analyst Daniel Ahmad commented. It helps developers release games outside of traditional distribution models and get rid of the high fees charged by other companies, like Xiaomi and Huawei.
Network also publishes games but platform TapTap is its biggest product. However, the earnings from games fell drastically (compared to 71% ratio in 2018), so the company is now seeking new ways to drive revenues. It published a few titles for the Chinese market, which accounted for 40% of total revenue in 2020. The deal will help the Chinese giant to strengthen its position in the game market.Īlthough its video streaming platform remains its main business, Bilibili isn’t new to the video games industry. Network’s common stock, which will give it a 4.72% stake. According to TechCrunch, Bilibili will purchase 22.66 million shares of X.D. The Record understands that APT31 used proxy meshes made of home routers as a way to scan the internet and then launch and disguise its attacks against Exchange email servers earlier this year however, the technique was also used for other operations as well.The company shared the news on April 1. On another note, APT31 was also one of the two Chinese hacking groups, together with APT40, that the US and its allies accused on Monday of orchestrating a hacking campaign against Microsoft Exchange servers earlier this year. These groups use the botnets as giant proxy meshes to relay a wide variety of malicious activity, such as brute-force attacks, vulnerability exploitation, port scanning operations, and traffic carrying stolen data.īut while the tactic has been widely used by financially motivated cybercrime groups, it has also been seen as part of the arsenal of nation-state hacking groups since at least April 2018, when Akamai mentioned APT abuse in a report on the UPnProxy technique. In most cases, hacked routers and IoT devices are assembled into botnets, which are then rented to cybercrime groups. The operational tactic of using home routers to create proxy meshes to disguise the origin of web attacks is a common tactic these days. I put together some graphs demonstrating the ~160 IP addresses that were disclosed: /A7XIPe72qf- Will | Bushido JAPTs have used proxy meshes since 2018 One of the reasons for this tactic is that some organizations might be blocking incoming traffic from international IP addresses as a security measure.ĬERT-FR reports that #APT31 is using compromised routers to target French organisations:
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In a series of tweets today, Ben Koehl, a security researcher for the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center, said APT31 was using this proxy network to make it appear that attacks are coming from the target organization’s national IP address space. The agency said the APT31 attacks started at the beginning of 2021 and are still ongoing.įrench officials said that APT31’s proxy botnet was used to perform both reconnaissance operations against their targets, but also to carry out the attacks themselves. In a security alert published today, the French National Cybersecurity Agency, also known as ANSSI (Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information), published a list of 161 IP addresses that have been hijacked by APT31 in recent attacks against French organizations. Chinese hacking group APT31 uses mesh of home routers to disguise attacksĪ Chinese cyber-espionage group known as APT31 (or Zirconium) has been seen hijacking home routers to form a proxy mesh around its server infrastructure in order to relay and disguise the origins of their attacks.
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