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On Monday (19JUL2021) President Biden announced that the US and its allies were joining together to condemn and expose that China was behind a set of unprecedented attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange servers conducted earlier this year. The White House press release was titled: “The United States, Joined by Allies and Partners, Attributes Malicious Cyber Activity and Irresponsible State Behavior to the People’s Republic of China.”
After praising recent actions by world governments to condemn Russian ransomware attacks, today’s memo goes on the offensive against China, reminding the world that the PRC intelligence enterprise hires contract hackers who operate both for the state and for their own profits. Biden reminds us of charges brought against PRC Ministry of State Security (MSS) hackers in October 2018, July 2020, and September 2020 and says they have “engaged in ransomware attacks, cyber enabled extortion, crypto-jacking, and rank theft.” Today additional charges were brought against additional MSS hackers.
While many court cases, agreements and foreign government statement were mentioned in the article, we thought it would be helpful to have all the links in one place. In this article, we share links to the mentioned charges against MSS-sponsored hackers, indicators and characteristics of the APT40 attacks, including advisories from CISA and NSA, links to foreign government statements joining in condemning China’s cyber attacks, and lastly, policy statements from G7, NATO, and EU supporting new Ransomware policy initiatives.
Justice.gov Previous Charges Against Chinese MSS-supported Hackers
The previous incidents referred to by the White House can be found on the Justice.gov website at the links below:
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