(Washington Composite Electric) The United States accused Chinese hackers' email platforms invading Microsoft earlier this year and stole 60,000 emails from 10 accounts in the US State Department.American and Japanese officials also warned that hackers related to China can launch an attack on multinational companies in the United States and Japan without being found.
Hackers have won all the email accounts of the US State Department
On Wednesday (September 28), the US State Council Information Technology Officer held a briefing on the stolen email.A participant revealed to Reuters that hackers stole emails from 10 State Council officials.These officials are mainly responsible for diplomatic work in the Indo -Pacific region, and nine of them are in East Asia and the Pacific region, one in Europe.In addition, hackers also obtained a list of all email accounts including the US Insurance Office.
The United States accused China of manipulating the hacking invasion, but China denied it.
The US government's information technology (IT) service is provided by Microsoft.The briefing officials said that the hackers invaded the equipment of Microsoft engineers and entered the email system of the State Council.The State Council has begun to explore cooperation with a number of IT suppliers, and has also improved multiple security verification procedures.
U.S. government officials and Microsoft have previously pointed out that since May of this year, hackers related to the Chinese government have invaded about 25 organizations of email accounts, of which the US Department of Commerce and the State Department account.
After the briefing on Wednesday, the Republican Senator Schmidt issued a statement that the United States need to strengthen its defense against such network attacks and carefully examine the federal government's dependence on single IT service providers.
The US -Japan Internet Security Organization is to be a multinational company, beware of the Chinese related hacker organization Blacktech
On the same day, law enforcement and network security agencies in the United States and Japan issued a joint announcement to remind multinational companies to pay attention to BlackTech, which is related to China.
Announcement stated that the organization had launched an attack on the government, industry, technology, telecommunications and national defense departments.After hacking into the inner network of international enterprise subsidiaries, the logging function will be closed, and technologies such as remote access tools, malware, etc. will be used to invade these companies' headquarters networks in the United States and Japan without being discovered.
Japanese police said that Blacktech has been attacking government and technology companies in the United States and East Asia since 2010.Taiwan officials reported in 2020 that the email accounts of about 6,000 government officials were attacked by the organization, arguing that it was likely to be supported by the Chinese government.
Sino -US relations have continued to be nervous in recent years, and the United States has paid more and more attention to the possibility of cyber security that China may constitute.Some senior national security officials are also even more worried that the sensitive information shared by the United States and the allies may be stolen by the loopholes discovered in recent years. In the past three years, a delegation will be sent to Tokyo to warn Japan.
Japan and South Korea are important allys in the United States in East Asia.The Washington Post reported last month that the Chinese military hackers invaded the Japanese defense secret network in 2020.However, the Pentagon shows that it still has confidence in sharing information with Japan.
