US and allies accuse China of global hacking spree
The United States and its allies accused China on Monday of a global cyber espionage campaign, mustering an unusually broad coalition of countries to publicly call out Beijing for hacking. Simultaneously, the U.S. Department of Justice charged four Chinese nationals - three security officials and one contract hacker - with targeting dozens of companies, universities and government agencies in the United States and abroad. The United States was much more specific, formally attributing intrusions such as the one that affected servers running Microsoft Exchange earlier this year to hackers affiliated with China's Ministry of State Security. U.S. officials said the scope and scale of hacking attributed to China has surprised them, along with China's use of "criminal contract hackers." "The PRC’s Ministry of State Security has fostered an ecosystem of criminal contract hackers who carry out both state- U.S. security and intelligence agencies outlined more than50 techniques and procedures that "China state- Washington in recent months has focused heavy attention on Russia in accusing Russian hackers of a string of ransomware attacks in the United States.
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