{"id":3664,"date":"2025-05-01T10:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/hackers-abuse-ipv6-networking-feature-to-hijack-software-updates\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T10:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:04:17","slug":"hackers-abuse-ipv6-networking-feature-to-hijack-software-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/hackers-abuse-ipv6-networking-feature-to-hijack-software-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers abuse IPv6 networking feature to hijack software updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Hackers abuse IPv6 networking feature to hijack software updates<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A China-aligned APT threat actor named &#8220;TheWizards&#8221; abuses an IPv6 networking feature\u00a0to launch adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks that hijack software updates to install Windows malware. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Lawrence Abrams<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/hackers-abuse-ipv6-networking-feature-to-hijack-software-updates\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers abuse IPv6 networking feature to hijack software updates A China-aligned APT threat actor named &#8220;TheWizards&#8221; abuses an IPv6 networking feature\u00a0to launch adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks that hijack software updates to install Windows malware. [&#8230;] Lawrence Abrams Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}