“The United States and countries around the world are holding the People’s Republic of China (PRC) accountable for its pattern of irresponsible, disruptive, and destabilizing behavior in cyberspace, which poses a major threat to our economic and national security,” Secretary of State said. The U.K. and the European Union joined the U.S. in blaming the MSS for the Microsoft email hack, which left hundreds of thousands of mostly small businesses and organizations vulnerable to cyber intrusion. The Justice Department on Monday released a grand jury indictment from May that charged four Chinese nationals and residents working with the Ministry of State Security of engaging in a hacking campaign from 2011 to 2018. Read More...
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U.S. and allies accuse China of global hacking spree
The United States and its allies accused China on Monday of a global cyberespionage campaign, mustering an unusually broad coalition of countries to publicly call out Beijing for hacking. The United States was joined by NATO, the European Union, Britain, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Canada in condemning the spying, which U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said posed “a major threat to our economic and national security.” Simultaneously, the U.S. Department of Justice charged four Chinese nationals – three security officials and one contract hacker – with targeting dozens of companies, universities and government agencies in the United States and abroad.
