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The United States has accused 12 Chinese nationals, including two public security officials, for participating in a hacker campaign of renting on behalf of Beijing, whose goals included US government agencies.
The Ministry of Justice has accused 10 Chinese nationals of the alleged management of the decade of hacking campaign at the request of Chinese intelligence and police agencies.
They also allegedly sold the information obtained by hacking the Chinese Ministry of State Security and the Ministry of Public Security.
“Today we are exhibiting Chinese government agents that direct and encourage non -select and reckless attacks on computers and networks around the world,” said Sue Bai, head of the National Security Department of the US Ministry of Justice, “as well as companies that allow companies and individual hackers they liberated.”
According to the Ministry of Justice, 10 suspects-in-teaching officials, a company called the I-Soon, which in an extensive “hacker-Zanj ecosystem” created millions of dollars in the extensive “hacker-Zanj ecosystem”.
It said I-Soon spent hacking at the request of MSS and MPS, but also received information through an independent hacking, which he sold for safety agencies at a price of $ 10,000 to $ 75,000 for each used email mail.
“The Chinese Ministry of Public Security has paid for rental hackers to inflict digital damage to Americans who criticize the Chinese Communist Party,” said Bryan Vordran, Assistant Director of the FBI Cyber Department.
The Ministry of Justice announced that the goals of the hacking campaign included a religious organization that was critical of the Chinese government, a group for rights and media based in the US.
The hackers were also aiming for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taiwan, India, South Korea and Indonesia.
One FBI official said I-Soon was a “key player” in the Chinese Ecosystem of Information Security in the past decade and sometimes employed 100 people. He said the company estimated that by 2025 it would generate revenues of $ 75 million.
“The bottom line here is prc[People’s Republic of China]. . . He uses Proxy, a third company, to achieve their goals and goals by conducting these cyber operations against the US, “the official said.
The Ministry of Justice also accused Zhou Shuai and Yin Kecheng, two members of the hacker group known as the APT27, for alleged involvement in a multi -year “profit campaign for a computer to”.
Yin was allegedly involved in the attack on the US Ministry of Finance from September to December 2024.
A US official said Zhou “is a very large person in the hacking community in China and is involved in intermediary information obtained by hacking around the world.”
“His involvement is deep, longtime, and the fact that he is charged in this indictment should be a signal to everyone that there are no people out of the law,” the official added.
The FBI official added that the accused individuals were not associated with Salt Tifhoon, a multi-month alleged Chinese attack on the US telecommunications network that allows hackers to target any non-haired telephone call in the US.
In a recent interview With the Financial Times, former national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Salt Typhoon is unique due to the “pure proportion of access” achieved by the hacking campaign.
The Chinese Embassy in Washington announced that it opposed American efforts to impose their “jurisdiction of a long hand” to China.
“We invite now to stop using Cyber security questions to smear cinema and stop abusing illegal one -sided sanctions,” said Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for the Chinese embassy.
