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🇺🇸TREASURY HACKED: CHINA’S APT HACKERS STRIKE AGAIN
The U.S. Treasury has admitted the China state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) hacker group breached its systems this month.
How? By compromising BeyondTrust, a third-party cybersecurity provider.
The hackers used this as a backdoor to access unclassified Treasury workstations and documents.
The good news? BeyondTrust has been pulled offline.
The bad? Treasury is still working with law enforcement to assess the full damage.
Pro tip: Even the U.S. Treasury isn’t safe when hackers target their “secure” providers.
A supplemental report will spill more tea soon.
Source: AFP via Barron’s
The U.S. Treasury has admitted the China state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) hacker group breached its systems this month.
How? By compromising BeyondTrust, a third-party cybersecurity provider.
The hackers used this as a backdoor to access unclassified Treasury workstations and documents.
The good news? BeyondTrust has been pulled offline.
The bad? Treasury is still working with law enforcement to assess the full damage.
Pro tip: Even the U.S. Treasury isn’t safe when hackers target their “secure” providers.
A supplemental report will spill more tea soon.
Source: AFP via Barron’s