DOJ charges five Chinese citizens with hacks targeting 100 companies and institutions in the US and elsewhere; two Malaysian businessmen were arrested
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has charged five Chinese citizens with hacks targeting more than 100 companies and institutions …
Associated Press Eric Tucker
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Discussion
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@kjtorrance
Kelly Jane Torrance
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Chinese hackers started targeting groups “whose intellectual property would assist China's official Five-Year Plan, the nation's top-level policy blueprint.” Big indictment unsealed today: https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@benktallmadge
BenTallmadge
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Seven International Cyber Defendants, Including “Apt41” Actors, Charged In Connection With Computer Intrusion Campaigns Against More Than 100 Victims Globally - One of the hackers alllegedly boasted of connections to the Chinazi Ministey of State Security https://www.justice.gov/…
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@briankrebs
@briankrebs
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I wonder if the “Tan Dailin” named as one of 7 charged by the DOJ today as APT41 actors is the same Tan Dailin (a.k.a. “Wicked Rose") that I wrote about in 2011 as head of a dodgy Chinese antivirus firm called Anvisoft? https://krebsonsecurity.com/ ... https://www.justice.gov/...
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@pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings
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Some interesting points for infosec folks: 1) Very rapid turnarounds of publicly disclosed security exploits into active campaigns 2) Most of this group's activities were targeting IoT/router/VPN things that corps are less good at quickly patching https://twitter.com/...
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@pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings
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A lot of this indictment also shows another problem generally with foreign intel services and threat intel: the co-mingling of “traditional” criminal action (like cryptojacking) and state-craft-at-arms-length operations
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@pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings
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Part of what makes this group “advanced” is leveraging compromises to enable further compromises and persistence. So here, for example, compromising victim #1, stealing their code signing certs, and pushing signed malware to that victim's targeted customers https://twitter.com/..…
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@ericgeller
Eric Geller
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DAG Jeffrey Rosen is speaking now. Hackers are part of APT41. The two Malaysian businessmen were arrested on Monday. USG working w/ Microsoft and other companies to disable APT41's infrastructure.
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@ericgeller
Eric Geller
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Breaking: Federal prosecutors announce charges against five Chinese hackers — one of whom said he was working with the govt — and two Malaysian businessmen for a scheme that involved intrusions into more than 100 companies across a wide range of industries. Story to come. https:/…
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@politico
@politico
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Two Iranian nationals have been indicted on charges of hacking into American computer networks, stealing data for both personal financial gain and at the behest of the Iranian government https://www.politico.com/...