In March, the Department of Justice unsealed indictments of 12 people accused of hacking on behalf of the Chinese government, including employees at the cybersecurity firm i-Soon, the Ministry of Public Security, and alleged members of the Salt Typhoon hacking group. Accusations of cyber meddling between Washington and Beijing have ramped up in recent years since the discovery of a campaign to infiltrate critical infrastructure systems in the U.S. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Chinese officials acknowledged the hacks in a secret meeting with their American counterparts in December. China on Tuesday accused three alleged employees of the U.S. National Security Agency of carrying out cyberattacks on the Asian Winter Games in February. "China has expressed its concerns to the U.S. through various means about its cyberattacks on China's critical infrastructure,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said during a briefing on Tuesday. The public security bureau in Harbin, where the games were held, said the purported operatives were involved in the attacks on behalf of the agency’s Office of Tailored Access Operations. According to China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center, “foreign hostile forces” launched hundreds of thousands of cyberattacks on the games.
This Cyber News was published on therecord.media. Publication date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:35:18 +0000