(San Francisco Comprehensive Electric) A report released by US Network Security McGrady McGrady on Tuesday said that the Chinese government's codename "APT41" hacker team invaded the network system of at least six U.S. state governments last year.The report said that the hacker operations have continued from May last year to February this year, and may be to obtain economic benefits.
Jeff Akman, a senior threat intelligence analyst at Mandiant, said that although the Ukrainian war attracted the attention of the world, the outside world must realize that other hacker threats in the world, including "APT41",Still acting as always.
In 2020, the US Department of Justice accused five Chinese hackers invading hundreds of companies and institutions in the United States and overseas, and they were all members of the "APT41".The Chinese government has denied US allegations in the past.
Although the US government has strengthened defense measures, it still faces foreign hackers
Although the Bayeng government has announced more measures to protect the federal governmentThe computer system is exempted from hacking, but the state institutions are still hackers' attack targets.For example, in the SOLARWINDS network in Texas Software Company, Russian intelligence personnel used supply chain vulnerabilities to invade the network of at least nine American institutions and dozens of private companies.
The report said that in this case, hackers used an unknown loophole in ready -made business applications used by 18 states in the ready -made business applications of animal health management.In addition, they also used a software defect called LOG4J found in December last year.U.S. officials said hundreds of millions of equipment may have this defect.Within a few hours after disclosing the vulnerability to the public, hackers began to use the vulnerability and once again invaded the network of two state governments.
