Chinese hackers reportedly breached a key office at the U.S. Treasury Department tasked with reviewing foreign investments and transactions that could threaten U.S. national security.
CNN reports.Chinese hackers targeted the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, citing U.S. officials familiar with the matter. CFIUSIt can approve or reject deals that present national security risks, such as corporate mergers and acquisitions or deals involving sensitive US information.
Financial officials confirmed this to TechCrunch last week. Investigating a “major cyber security incident”. After a breach of its security vendor BeyondTrust. Hackers used a stolen BeyondTrust key to remotely access employee workstations and documents on the department's unclassified network, the Treasury Department said. It was later revealed that Chinese hackers had also breached it. the Department's Office of International Financial Sanctions;Office of Foreign Assets Control; or OFAC.
The US cyber security agency CISA said this week. There was no sign. As part of the campaign, hackers broke into other US government departments.
Bloomberg reports that the hackers targeting the Treasury Department are an active Chinese-backed hacking group known as Silk Typhoon (formerly known as Hafnium). Conduct mass hacking operations. It is intended to steal information.
The cyber attack on Treasury is the latest in a series of incidents uncovered in recent months, linked to the China-backed “Typhoon” family of hackers. participated in these cyber attacks. Targeting of private communications of US government officials versus Prefixing malware that wreaks havoc on US critical infrastructure. to strike In the event of future conflict between China and the United States.
The Chinese government has repeatedly denied the allegations.