By the CyberWire staff
Electric Panda targets US government contractors.
Politico reports that the US Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) has warned government contractors that, since February 1st, thirty-eight cleared contractor facilities have been targeted by the Chinese-government-aligned threat actor “Electric Panda.” Politico quotes a bulletin distributed by DCSA as saying the agency “detected nearly 600 ‘inbound and outbound connections’ from ‘highly likely Electric Panda cyber threat actors’ targeting 38 cleared contractor facilities, including those specializing in health care technology.” In addition to healthcare, the threat actor has been targeting contractors focused on “cybersecurity, aerospace, naval, health care, power generation, IT systems, telecommunications, risk analysis, and space systems.” Politico cites a contractor source as saying these types of warnings from DCSA are common, but it’s rare that they single out a specific threat actor.
Apple and Google are developing a COVID-19 contact-tracing system.
Apple and Google announced in a joint statement last week that they’re partnering to build a COVID-19 contact-tracing system into the iOS…
