Five Chinese hackers working for state-sponsored hacker group APT41 have been charged in the U.S. for targeting a large number of companies and individuals in multiple countries as well as pro-democracy politicians and activists in Hong Kong.
Earlier this year, cyber security firm FireEye described the activities of APT41, stating that the hacker group's activities against organisations and individuals had spiked since January and that the group had been carrying out "one of the broadest campaigns by a Chinese cyber espionage actor we have observed in recent years."
FireEye said in a report that APT41 abused recently disclosed flaws in software developed by Cisco, Citrix and others to try to break into scores of companies' networks in the United States, Canada, Britain, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and more than a dozen other countries.
Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that five Chinese hackers working for APT41 have been charged under various laws for being behind computer intrusions "affecting over 100 victim companies in the United States and abroad, including software development companies, computer hardware manufacturers, telecommunications providers, social media companies, video game companies, non-profit organisations, universities, think tanks, and foreign governments, as well as pro-democracy politicians and activists in Hong Kong."
DOJ said the state-sponsored hackers facilitated the theft of source code, software code signing certificates, customer account data, and valuable business information and also carried out ransomware and cryptojacking schemes. Two of the five hackers also conspired with two Malaysian businessmen to profit from computer intrusions targeting the video game industry in the United States and abroad.
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