Japanese law enforcement believes a group of hackers linked to the Chinese military are behind a broad cyber-espionage campaign that has breached more than 200 Japanese companies and organizations since at least 2016.
Citing unidentified sources in a police investigation, multiple local media outlets reported today that Tokyo police had identified a 30-year-old Chinese national and a Chinese student who have helped the hackers in their attacks.
News agencies such as the Yomiuri Shimbun, Nikkei, NHK, and The Mainichi said the suspects used fake IDs to register web servers between 2016 and 2017.
The servers were later used by a Chinese hacker group known as Tick to launch attacks against Japanese companies and research institutes active in the aviation and national defense sectors.
The only victim identified by Japanese investigators was the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), which is Japan’s NASA equivalent.
The two suspects have left Japan after being questioned by Tokyo police, but officials plan to refer the case to Tokyo prosecutors and seek their formal arrest.
Tick APT formally linked to Chinese military
The reports in Japanese media today are also the first time that anyone has linked the Tick advanced persistent threat (ATP) group to ..
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