How China's Hacking Entered a Reckless New Phase
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On Monday, the White House joined the UK government, the EU, NATO, and governments from Japan to Norway in announcements that spotlighted a string of Chinese hacking operations, and the US Department of Justice separately indicted four Chinese hackers, three of whom are believed to be officers of China's Ministry of State Security or MSS. A separate indictment names four MSS-affiliated hackers, three of whom were MSS officers, all accused of a broad range of intrusions targeting industries around the world from health care to aviation."The Chinese track closely what the Russians do on coercive activity, and they're copying them."James Lewis, CSISBut more unusual than the data theft outlined in that indictment was the mass-hacking called out in Monday's announcement, in which a group known as Hafnium—now linked by the White House to China's MSS—broke into no fewer than 30,000 Exchange Servers around the world. While in some cases those hackers focused on highly targeted spying, in others they stole millions of dollars worth of virtual currency or deployed ransomware to paralyze victims networks, such as two Taiwanese oil companies in 2018.In its increasingly large-scale hacking techniques, its hybrid of spying and cybercrime, and its use of "coercive" hacking, China resembles Russia more and more in its hacking operations, says James Lewis, director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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