- 12 Chinese pirates were charged by the United States Ministry of Justice
- Two of them would have been involved in hacking the US Treasury 2024
- Individuals have not been apprehended
The United States Ministry of Justice (DoJ) announced that it has brought charges against 12 Chinese pirates accused of having targeted more than 100 American companies, including the US Treasury.
Individuals are all accused of having played key roles in Chinese hacking offensives. Officials have confirmed that some of the people charged were contractual hackers and Chinese laws of the application of laws that were targeting businesses in the United States and the world in order to suppress “freedoms of freedom and religious”.
Of these twelve, two of the people would be linked to the hacking group sponsored by the Typhon silk state – identified by Microsoft as the group responsible for hacking the American Treasury at the end of 2024.
Pirates-Pour-Location
The attackers targeted law firms, defense entrepreneurs, government agencies, universities, technological companies and health services, confirmed prosecutors – access victims’ networks by operating unlikely vulnerabilities in company software.
The DoJ also announced that he was carrying accusations against eight people who were part of an organization, Anxum Information Technology Co.LTD. – Nicknamed “I-SOON”.
This organization, “conducted computer intrusions towards the RPC [Ministry of Public Security] The deputies and the Ministry of State Security (MSS) “- for whom the deputies and the MSS have” paid generously “, rewarding between about $ 10,000 and $ 75,000 for each reception box per e-mail that the group managed to operate.
“The FBI is committed to protecting the Americans from foreign cyber attacks,” said deputy director Bryan Vornndan of the FBI cyber-division.
“Today’s announcements reveal that the Chinese public security ministry has paid hackers to impose digital damage to the Americans who criticize the Chinese Communist Party (CCC).
None of the people have been detained and the US government offered up to $ 10 million for information leading to the arrests and convictions of malicious cybercriminals.
