{"id":136021,"date":"2025-09-07T17:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136021"},"modified":"2025-09-07T17:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:15:16","slug":"us-investigating-malware-email-targeting-trade-talks-with-china-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136021","title":{"rendered":"US investigating malware email targeting trade talks with China: reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS authorities are investigating a bogus email from a Republican lawmaker that contained malware apparently aimed at giving China insights into the Trump administration\u2019s trade talks with Beijing, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe malware in the email purportedly sent by congressman John Moolenaar in July to US trade groups, law firms and government agencies was traced by cyber analysts to a hacker group &#8211; APT41 &#8211; believed to be working for Chinese intelligence, the newspaper&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3324670\/us-investigating-malware-email-targeting-trade-talks-china-reports?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS authorities are investigating a bogus email from a Republican lawmaker that contained malware apparently aimed at giving China insights into the Trump administration\u2019s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136021"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}