Japan has accused a member of the Chinese Communist Party of conducting cyber-attacks on its space agency and 200 other local entities.
Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police yesterday said they’ve filed a case against a Chinese national who they said works for a state-owned telco and, while living in Japan, rented servers to attack the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in 2016. The individual, and another Chinese national believed to have visited Japan as an exchange student, are thought to have conducted up to 200 more attacks on Japanese companies over the following two years.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato restated those claims in his Tuesday afternoon press briefing, and said the alleged attacker worked for Unit 61419 of China’s People’s Liberation Army, an outfit sometimes referred to as “Tick” and suspected of focusing on offensive ..
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