Rod Rosenstein Announces Indictment of Chinese Hackers

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ROSENSTEIN: "They can steal sensitive information that gives competitors and unfair advantage. The indictment alleges that a defendants worked for group known to cybersecurity experts as APT10. These groups are designated as APTs, advanced persistent threats, because they use malware to gain access to computer networks and to exfiltrate or steal data over an extended period of time. These defendants allegedly compromised MSP clients in at least a dozen countries; the United States and 11 other countries. The victims included companies in banking and finance, telecommunications and computer consumer electronics, medical equipment, packaging, manufacturing, consulting, health care, biotechnology, automotive oil and gas exploration and mining. The defendants allegedly committed these crimes in association with a Chinese intelligence agency, known as the Ministry of State security. This is not the first time that the Department of Justice has accused Chinese state actors of stealing commercial information.”