US, UK Announce Sanctions Over China-Linked Election Hacks (pbs.org) 29
Earlier today, the U.S. and U.K. accused hackers linked to the Chinese state of being behind "malicious" cyber campaigns targeting political figures. The U.K. government also blamed China for a 2021 cyberattack that compromised the personal information of millions of U.K. voters. In response, PBS reports that the U.S. and British government announced sanctions against a company and two people linked to the Chinese government. From the report: Officials said those sanctioned are responsible for a hack that may have gained access to information on tens of millions of U.K. voters held by the Electoral Commission, as well as for cyberespionage targeting lawmakers who have been outspoken about the China threat. The Foreign Office said the hack of the election registers "has not had an impact on electoral processes, has not affected the rights or access to the democratic process of any individual, nor has it affected electoral registration." The Electoral Commission said in August that it identified a breach of its system in October 2022, though it added that "hostile actors" had first been able to access its servers since 2021. At the time, the watchdog said the data included the names and addresses of registered voters. But it said that much of the information was already in the public domain.
In Washington, the Treasury Department said it sanctioned Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company Ltd., which it calls a Chinese Ministry of State Security front company that has "served as cover for multiple malicious cyberoperations." It named two Chinese nationals, Zhao Guangzong and Ni Gaobin, affiliated with the Wuhan company, for cyberoperations that targeted U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, "directly endangering U.S. national security." Separately, British cybersecurity officials said that Chinese government-affiliated hackers "conducted reconnaissance activity" against British parliamentarians who are critical of Beijing in 2021. They said no parliamentary accounts were successfully compromised.
Three lawmakers, including former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith, told reporters Monday they have been "subjected to harassment, impersonation and attempted hacking from China for some time." Duncan Smith said in one example, hackers impersonating him used fake email addresses to write to his contacts. The politicians are members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, an international pressure group focused on countering Beijing's growing influence and calling out alleged rights abuses by the Chinese government.
In Washington, the Treasury Department said it sanctioned Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company Ltd., which it calls a Chinese Ministry of State Security front company that has "served as cover for multiple malicious cyberoperations." It named two Chinese nationals, Zhao Guangzong and Ni Gaobin, affiliated with the Wuhan company, for cyberoperations that targeted U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, "directly endangering U.S. national security." Separately, British cybersecurity officials said that Chinese government-affiliated hackers "conducted reconnaissance activity" against British parliamentarians who are critical of Beijing in 2021. They said no parliamentary accounts were successfully compromised.
Three lawmakers, including former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith, told reporters Monday they have been "subjected to harassment, impersonation and attempted hacking from China for some time." Duncan Smith said in one example, hackers impersonating him used fake email addresses to write to his contacts. The politicians are members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, an international pressure group focused on countering Beijing's growing influence and calling out alleged rights abuses by the Chinese government.
Like the US and UK (Score:2, Insightful)
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Sanctions? That'll show 'em (Score:1)
Helping Taiwan and Japan get nukes would show we're serious.
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Pitiful weakness (Score:4, Insightful)
We should be sanctioning China into oblivion, not slapping their hands. No more rolling over like beta cucks.
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They're not Russia or North Korea.
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The separation continues. If they're ever stupid enough to attack Taiwan (I suspect not but totalitarians tend to do stupid shit) then the break will be instant anyway.
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America can't even sanction Russia properly. What hope do you think they'd have against China?
No more rolling over like beta cucks.
Your wishful thinking is even funnier when you learn it's the beta cuck Republicans simping for Putin and Russia.
Re: Pitiful weakness (Score:2, Insightful)
China all bad, all the time (Score:1)
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If China wasn't all bad all the time we could discuss it.
Chinese hyperloop? Maybe we need some articles talking about the great advances in medicine the Germans made in the early 1940s with the help of Jewish volunteers. The ww2 Germans weren't all bad all the time, right?
German real genocide = Uyghur fake genocide ? (Score:2)
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Nice try to retcon the human rights crimes of the Chinese away. Now do Tibet and the Falun Gong and organ "donations" from political prisoners to keep octogenarian CCP leaders alive.
Good try to distract from China's crimes with some nonsense about an unrelated part of the world. No bites on your Jew hating bait.
Do they think we're idiots? (Score:2, Insightful)
Some website gets hacked and they jump right to China-Did-It to save the embarrassment of admitting what was likely a config error exploited by a 15 year old script kiddy. The tech illiterate media swallows the story hook, line and sinker, never asking the questions that might reveal the true story.
Oh, then it ends up on Slashdot.
Re:Do they think we're idiots? (Score:4, Insightful)
they jump right to China-Did-It
Summary:
Earlier today (March 25th, 2024), the U.S. and U.K. accused hackers linked to the Chinese state of being behind "malicious" cyber campaigns targeting political figures. The U.K. government also blamed China for a 2021 cyberattack
Try harder pancake tankie.
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You just confirmed what he is saying. They blame everything on China! China! China! I say it's "hackers" from Ukraine and Romania, maybe Poland too, selling their product to advertisers and other slime for a very healthy profit.
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Make sure to collect your 25 cents. AC posts are paid at half rate due to being far less influential.
perhaps old 'drunken' (Score:2)
Yet you keep trading with them... (Score:2)
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Sanctions plus ongoing separation is in progress. Stupid greed got us tangle up over decades. You don't untangle that mess in a week without causing great self harm. China economy is headed into the toilet long term. Demographics will not be denied.
Re: Yet you keep trading with them... (Score:4, Insightful)
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Delusional. I note you don't say a word about their demographic time bomb thanks to the one child policy.
In recent years they went from punishing multi child families to begging families to have more than one child because the people aren't having kids at replacement rate. Far from it. It's just math and they're fucked.