The United States on Monday accused seven Chinese men of breaking into computer networks, email accounts, and cloud storage belonging to numerous critical infrastructure organizations, companies, and individuals, including US businesses, politicians, and their political parties.
According to American prosecutors, the suspected spies are members of APT31, a cyber-espionage group said to be run by China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) out of Wuhan and otherwise known as Zirconium, Violet Typhoon, Judgment Panda, and Altaire.
And according to the UK government today, that’s the same crew responsible for the attempted compromise of British politicians’ email accounts in 2021.
Both the UK and the US sanctioned Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology, said to be a front company for the MSS and its…
