- A new alliance of NATO members, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand and Japan will confront the threat posed by Chinese state-sponsored cyberattacks.
- The group will share intelligence on cyberthreats and collaborate on network defenses and security, said a senior Biden administration official.
- The alliance will publicly blame China’s Ministry of State Security for a massive cyberattack on Microsoft Exchange email servers earlier this year.
In its first joint action on Monday, the alliance will publicly blame China’s Ministry of State Security for a massive cyberattack on Microsoft Exchange email servers earlier this year.
The attack was carried out by criminal contract hackers working for the MSS who also engage in cyber-enabled extortion, cryptojacking and ransomware, the official said.
The group will share intelligence on cyberthreats and collaborate on network defenses and security, said a senior Biden administration official who requested anonymity to discuss a national security effort.
Also Monday, the FBI, National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a new advisory listing 50 tactics, techniques and procedures that Chinese state-sponsored hackers employ.
The brazen Microsoft Exchange server attack became public in March and is believed to have hit at least 30,000 American organizations and hundreds of thousands more worldwide.
Microsoft quickly identified the group behind the hack as a relatively unknown Chinese espionage network dubbed Hafnium.
Until now, the United States has stopped short of publicly blaming Beijing for the attack.
The delay in naming China was partly to give investigators time to assemble the evidence to prove that the Hafnium hackers were on the Chinese...
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