The United States collects 12 suspected spies in China’s free-driving hacker ecosystem
There is little glimpse of the vast ecosystem of hacker rental contractors in the West, which has led to China’s digital invasion campaign around the world. Now, a dozen Chinese men, including two government officials, have filed a series of new criminal charges, accusing them of a massive espionage campaign that included violating the U.S. Treasury Department and revealing internal exchanges of some so-called hackers, tools and business relationships.
The US Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the indictments of 12 Chinese individuals accused of more than a decade of hacker intrusions around the world, including eight staffers for the contractor i-Soon, two officials at China’s Ministry of Public Security who allegedly worked with them, and two other men who were allegedly part of the Chinese hacker group APT27 or Silk Typhoon, which prosecutors say was involved in the breach late last year of the US Treasury.
Today, we are exposing Chinese government agents, guiding and promoting chaotic and reckless attacks on computers and networks around the world, as well as companies and individual hackers that enable them to free them. “Sue Bai led the Ministry of Justice’s propaganda in the National Security Department of Justice.
According to U.S. prosecutors, the entire group targets U.S. state and federal agencies, foreign departments in Asian countries, Chinese dissidents, U.S. media that criticize the Chinese government and, more recently, the U.S. Treasury Department, which were damaged between September and December last year.
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