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Ping Li gave the Chinese government information about the country’s hacking of a major U.S. company and cyber training materials, the DOJ said.
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To surveil security conscious politicians and dissidents, hackers linked to Beijing are increasingly targeting their spouses and relatives.
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Officials in Washington and London say hackers backed by the Chinese state sought to silence dissidents and surveil politicians.
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On Monday (19JUL2021) President Biden announced that the US and its allies were joining together to condemn and expose that China was behind a set of unprecedented attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange servers conducted earlier this… Continue reading Nations come together to condemn China: APT31 and APT40
U.S. indictments against individual Chinese soldiers accused of hacking various American targets have deterred those military personnel from conducting the same kinds of hacks again, according to the co-founder of a firm known for investigating nation-state activity. Digital infrastructure associated with alleged hackers charged in 2014, 2017 and 2018 essentially evaporated when charges in each case were made public, said Dmitri Alperovitch, who co-founded CrowdStrike, during a keynote speech Wednesday during the RSA security conference in San Francisco. Each of the groups — known as APT 1, APT 3, or Buyosec, and APT 10, respectively — has been associated with Chinese intelligence services or the People’s Liberation Army. “Everything associated with them disappeared,” Alperovitch said during a conversation with reporters after the presentation. He cautioned that, while other Chinese groups largely have remained active, the specific groups named in the indictments “vanished” in a way that was “remarkable.” Some of […]
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Following the indictment of two alleged members of a Chinese cyberespionage group by the U.S. Department of Justice Dec. 20, the governments of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.K. have publicly attributed the group’s activities to China&… Continue reading ‘Five Eyes’ Countries Attribute APT10 Attacks to Chinese Intelligence Service