An advanced persistent threat (APT) group, Flax Typhoon, was able to gain persistent access to the mapping tool ArcGIS for over a year, putting several enterprises at risk. ArcGIS is a geospatial ...

A Chinese state-backed cybergang known as Flax Typhoon spent more than a year burrowing inside an ArcGIS server, quietly turning the trusted mapping software into a covert backdoor. Researchers at ...

Security teams have been urged to adopt proactive threat hunting after a new report revealed how Chinese hackers used novel techniques to turn trusted software components into persistent backdoors.

Threat actors with ties to China have been attributed to a novel campaign that compromised an ArcGIS system and turned it into a backdoor for more than a year. The activity, per ReliaQuest, is the ...

A China-backed threat group exploited what ReliaQuest researchers called a “common security blind spot” to maintain persistence in a widely used geospatial data management application for more than a ...

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Taoiseach Micheál Martin has taken issue with an analysis conducted by the Economic and Social and Research Institute (ESRI), which says the measures announced in Budget 2026 will result in small ...

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Households will, on average, be 2 per cent worse off next year as a result of measures in Budget 2026, assuming wages grow as expected, the Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) says, with ...

In the dynamic fields of urban planning and climate science, Esri, the world’s leading geographic information system (GIS) software provider, is pioneering how cities use data to confront urgent ...

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