US, Allies Accuse China’s Spies of Directing Cyberattacks
- Report accuses China’s MSS of backing group behind attacks
- Australia says hacker group targeted government, private data
The US and its allies have accused China’s top spy agency of directing cyberattacks against government and private sector entities through a group of hackers.
In an Australia-led report published on Tuesday morning, cybersecurity and intelligence agencies for the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and Germany said that Advanced Persistent Threat 40 had “repeatedly” targeted governments across the Indo-Pacific. The group was able to steal hundreds of unique user names and passwords in one incident in April 2022, as well as intercepting multi-factor authentication codes, the report said.