12 of the Chinese infiltrators accused of violating the cabinet – and much more

The Ministry of Justice (doj) Declared today A criminal accused 12 Chinese citizens saying he was behind the attacks that struck more than 100 American organizations, including the Treasury, in a series of attacks dating back to 2013.

The Ministry of Justice accuses the people of carrying out their attacks either on their own or at the request of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS). Two deputies say, while eight other employees of a Chinese company “private apparently” called I-SOON, who claimed to have the ability to penetrate the Gmail and Microsoft imports, as well as Twitter and X, using the latter to help the Chinese government monitor public opinion abroad. This last tool was described as “the platform for public opinion and control,” according to The government’s accusation regulations.

Two members of a group called APT27, or Typhoon Silk, which were behind the penetration of organizations such as health care systems and universities, according to the Ministry of Justice. The group recently focused on information technology systems that include modern management programs Microsoft Research conclude. Such a program was a goal The cabinet penetration It was mentioned in late December.

The Ministry of Justice says that the infiltrators were driven by money, as it prompted “MPs and MSS wonderfully for stolen data.” From the I-SOON collection:

I-SON and its employees, to include the defendants, have generated tens of millions of dollars as a major player in the ecosystem of the PRC. In some cases, I-SOON has computers at the MSS or MPS request, including national oppression that is possible online towards the defendants MPS employee. In other cases, I-SOON conducted computer interventions with its own initiative and then sold, or tried to sell them, stolen data to at least 43 different offices of MSS or MPS in 31 provinces and municipalities at least in China. I-Soon imposed MSS and MPS between about $ 10,000 and $ 75,000 per email box successfully exploited. I-Soon also trained deputies on how to penetrate independently of I-SOON and offered a variety of piracy styles for sale to its customers.

Silk Typhoon:

The defendants ‘motives were financial, and because they were driven by profit, they were widely targeted, making the victims’ systems very weak exceeding the data and other information they could sell. Between them, YIN and ZHou sought to benefit from the hacked of many United States -based technology companies, thought tanks, defense contractors, local governments, health care systems, and universities, leaving behind millions of dollars.

Among the other victims of I-SOON are two newspapers in New York, the US Department of Commerce, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and more.

There is no defendant in the reservation, says the Ministry of Justice. The United States government provides up to 10 million dollars to obtain information that helps it determine any of the accused by directing or implementing the “I-noon cyber”. It also provides “up to two million dollars, each of which leads to arrest and condemnation, in any country, from the Yin Kecheng and Zhou Shui,” Typhoon Silk members.