The Czech Republic says that Chinese -backed Apt31 Hacking Group was behind the country’s Foreign Ministry and the cyber attack targeting important infrastructure organizations.
“Malived activity, which has lasted from 2022 and influenced an organization named as Czech Critical Infrastructure, was determined by Cyberpian actor APT31 which is publicly connected to the Ministry of State Security,” the Czech government Said,
“The Government of Czech Republic strongly condemns this malicious cyber campaign against its important infrastructure. Such behavior reduces the reliability of the People’s Republic of China and refutes its public announcements.”
European Union Member State and NATO colleagues Condemned the attack On Wednesday, China was asked to follow the United Nations criteria and respect international law.
Two months ago, the Finnish police confirmed that APT31 hackers were behind the violation of the country’s Parliament in March 2021, when the attackers compromised several email accounts, with some Finnish MPs.
In July 2021, the United States and its associates blamed the Chinese MSS-Linked APT31 and APT40 danger groups for a comprehensive hacking campaign, which was targeted more than a quarter of a million Microsoft Exchange Server related to thousands of organizations worldwide.
The European Union Council said, “In recent years, there has been an increase in malicious cyber activities related to this country and the European Union and its member states. In 2021, we urged Chinese authorities to take action against malicious cyber activities done from their region,” the council of the European Union. Said On Wednesday.
“Since then, many member states have blamed similar activities at their national level. We have repeatedly raised our concerns during bilateral busyness and we will continue to do so in future.”
APT31 Charge and Ban
Apt31 (Also tracked as a girconium and judgment panda), is first associated with the Chinese State Security Ministry (MSS), known for many espionage operations and its participation in theft and the Epme NSA NSA NSA was leaked by Chhaya Brokers in April 2017 before the years of NSA exploitation.
Microsoft visited the APT31 attacks four years ago, targeting high-profile individuals associated with Joe Biden’s Presidential campaign, while Google targeted them at the same time at the same time in fishing attacks to the “individual emails of the campaign staff” accounts.
The office of the US Treasury Department of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) approved two APT31 operators (Zhao Guangzong and Ni Gobin) in March, which for its work for contracts for OFAC-based company Wuhan ExRDDs used by Chinese MSS attacks against US Critical Infrastructure.
They were also Accepted To target UK MPs by the United Kingdom, to dissolve the GCHQ intelligence agency and hack the country’s election commission systems.
Additionally, US justice department Was accused To join the operation of Wuhan XRZ in at least 14 years, two APT31 hackers with five other defenders.
Now, US State Department is Awards up to $ 10 million offer For information about Wuhan XRZ and APT31, who can help any of the seven Chinese hackers find out and/or arrest.
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