US charges Chinese nationals with cyber-spying on pretty much everyone for Beijing

According to American prosecutors, the suspected spies are members of APT31, a cyber-espionage group said to be run by China's Ministry of State Security out of Wuhan and otherwise known as Zirconium, Violet Typhoon, Judgment Panda, and Altaire.Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology, said to be a front company for the MSS and its computer-intrusion activities, and two of the seven Chinese nationals for their alleged roles in that espionage.

For instance, the Chinese g-men, it is claimed, sent"thousands" of crafty email messages to personal and professional accounts belonging to politicians and their family members, purporting to be from prominent American journalists. These messages contained malicious links that, when opened, disclosed the recipient's physical location and IP addresses as well as information about their networks and specific devices used to access the emails.

The only way to fix it, they conclude, is an independent Cyber Force, located within the Army. The proposal is for 6,200 servicemembers, civilians, and contractors. Some of APT31's targets allegedly included individuals at the White House; and the US Departments of Justice, Commerce, Treasury, State, Labor and Transportation, as well as members of Congress and the spouses of a high-ranking Department of Justice official, high-ranking White House officials, and multiple US senators.

The indictment described one alleged intrusion in late 2016 during which a zero-day privilege-escalation exploit was used to drill into a US defense contractor with offices in Long Island, New York. This is just one of the"multiple" contractors providing products and services to the American military that the crew snooped on, it is claimed.

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