UK and US accuse China of ‘malicious’ global cyber attacks
by Sophie Wingate
Mar 26, 2024
4 minutes
The UK and the United States have accused China of a global campaign of “malicious” cyber attacks in an unprecedented joint operation to reveal Beijing’s espionage.
Britain has publicly blamed China for targeting the Electoral Commission watchdog and for being behind a campaign of online “reconnaissance” aimed at the email accounts of MPs and peers.
Chinese spies are likely to use the stolen details to target dissidents and critics of Xi Jinping’s government in the UK, British intelligence services believe.
US officials said the APT31 hacking group spent more than a decade targeting the sensitive data of politicians, journalists, academics,
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