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China MSS Guangdong State Security Department Hackers

(7 Jul) The US has officially issued wanted orders towards 2 Chinese hackers, Li Xiaoyu and Dong Jiazhi. It is believed the 2 individuals are currently in China.

According to US courts, these 2 hackers have participated in online espionage for 10 years, trying to irrupt sensitive entities and data including US defense contractors, COVID-19 vaccine researches and information of Hong Kong protestors and their supporters for the Chinese communist party.

Source: FBI
Credit: Hong Kong Echo
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Cyfirma told Reuters that hacking group APT10, known as Stone Panda, had identified gaps and vulnerabilities in the IT infrastructure and supply chain software of Bharat Biotech and the Serum Institute of India (SII), the world's largest vaccine maker.

Asked to respond to Beijing's comment, Cyfirma, a company which is backed by investors including Goldman Sachs, said in a statement: "We stand by our findings and research"
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Japanese media: Chinese People’s Liberation Army suspected instructing hackers to attack about 200 Japanese companies and research institutes 
 
Japan NHK quoted a news and stated, Tokyo police discovered there is a Chinese hacker organisation launched a large-scale cyber-attack on about 200 research institutes and private companies including the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The Japanese authorities suspect that these hackers were instructed by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. 
 
The source revealed to the Japan Broadcasting Association, JAXA has been cyber-attacked in 2016. Tokyo police have targeted a 30-year-old Chinese system engineer, accusing him of being a member of the Chinese Communist Party. He was accused of renting domestic servers under a false name to attack the systems of multiple institutions. 
 
He is alleged to have forwarded these server numbers and related certificates to a Chinese hacker organisation called Tick. The man has left Japan, but the Japanese Metropolitan Police Department submitted the man’s case to the prosecutor as early as Tuesday, accusing him of falsifying digital records.  
 
Source: Stand News #Apr20

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Intrusion Truth details work of suspected Chinese hackers who are under indictment in US

Intrusion Truth, a mysterious group known for exposing suspected Chinese cyber-espionage operations, on Thursday published a new investigation that traced front companies allegedly used by two Chinese men whom a U.S. grand jury indicted last year.

The findings shed light on a dynamic that U.S. law enforcement officials say is increasingly common: foreign intelligence services’ use of front companies to try to conceal their hacking operations. The details also come at a time when Biden administration officials are dealing with the fallout of another suspected Chinese hacking campaign in which attackers leveraged widely used Microsoft software.

Source: CyberScoop #May06

https://t.co/5AhLumsp8r

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USA and NATO Condemn China's Malicious Cyberattack

The Guardian reported that the USA and NATO along with the European Union, United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand condemned Malicious Cyberattacks by China. The attack includes the invasion of 250,000 Microsoft Exchange email servers, affecting at least 30,000 US governmental and non-governmental organizations. It is the first cyber behaviour condemn by NATO since its establishment in 1949. Antony Blinken, the United States Secretary of State, indicates that the systemic cyberattack from China is irresponsible, destructive and brings instability, seriously threatening the economy and national security of the USA.

On the same day, the US Department of Justice prosecuted four China citizens, including three security department officials and one criminal hacker contractor, accusing them of extorting and endangering the USA national security. Between 2011 and 2018, they invaded the computer system of various organizations, universities and government institutions, asking for trade secrets of aeronautics, national defence, education, government, medical, biopharmaceutical and maritime.

Source: Stand News #Jul20

https://bit.ly/2ViBmkW

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Spies for Hire: China’s New Breed of Hackers Blends Espionage and Entrepreneurship

China’s buzzy high-tech companies don’t usually recruit Cambodian speakers, so the job ads for three well-paid positions with those language skills stood out. The ad, seeking writers of research reports, was placed by an internet security start-up in China’s tropical island-province of Hainan.

That start-up was more than it seemed, according to American law enforcement. Hainan Xiandun Technology was part of a web of front companies controlled by China’s secretive state security ministry, according to a federal indictment from May. They hacked computers from the United States to Cambodia to Saudi Arabia, seeking sensitive government data as well as less-obvious spy stuff, like details of a New Jersey company’s fire-suppression system, according to prosecutors.

Source: NY Times #Aug26

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/technology/china-hackers.html

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At least 13 phone firms hit by suspected Chinese hackers since 2019, say experts

At least 13 phone companies around the world have been compromised since 2019 by sophisticated hackers who are believed to come from China, a cybersecurity expert group has said.

The roaming hackers – known as LightBasin – were able to “search and find” individual mobile phones and “target accordingly”, according to CrowdStrike, a group regularly cited by western intelligence.

Hackers were also able to obtain personal subscriber information held by phone companies and metadata showing who made and received calls.

Source: The Guardian #Oct19

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/19/phone-firms-hit-by-suspected-chinese-hackers-lightbasin-china?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Chinese hacking shows clear ‘geopolitical goals,’ targets Taiwan, Hong Kong universities

Hackers from China have targeted political issues and universities in Taiwan and Hong Kong, Microsoft said in its 2021 Digital Defense Report, which covers the period between July 2020 and June 2021.

Cristin Goodwin, head of Microsoft’s Digital Security Unit, noted China’s geopolitical goals, reported AP. According to the October 2021 report, the “Chromium” cyber activity group targeted “sensitive social, economic, and political issues surrounding Hong Kong and Taiwan” in addition to China’s neighbors, such as India, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, and Thailand.

Source: Taiwan News #Oct08

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4309568

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