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CHINESE HACKERS TARGETED SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS, REPORT SAYS

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Jamie Tarabay
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December 9, 2021, 11:53 AM GMT
 * Targets included prime ministers’ offices, senior ministries
 * Campaigns support Beijing’s regional aims, says report


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Chinese hackers this year targeted military and civilian organizations in
several Southeast Asian nations, particularly those with similar territorial
claims or strategic infrastructure projects, suggesting the involvement of the
state, a U.S.-based cybersecurity firm said in new research released late
Wednesday.

Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam were the top three targeted countries over the
past nine months, said the Insikt Group, the threat research arm of
Massachusetts-based Recorded Future. The hackers also took aim at several other
countries, including the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand, it said.




“The identified intrusion campaigns almost certainly support key strategic aims
of the Chinese government, such as gathering intelligence on countries engaged
in South China Sea territorial disputes or related to projects and countries
strategically important to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI),” Insikt Group
said in its report.



The hackers focused on the offices of the Thai and Malaysian prime ministers,
the foreign affairs ministries of Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as their
militaries, it said. Insikt said it identified over 400 unique servers in
Southeast Asia communicating with infected networks that were likely linked to
Chinese state-sponsored actors, adding that it didn’t have any insight into the
specific data that might have been obtained. The group attributed much of the
activity to a Chinese state-sponsored entity it has labeled Threat Activity
Group 16. 

“We also identified evidence suggesting that TAG-16 shares custom capabilities
with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)-linked activity group RedFoxtrot,” it
said. Insikt said it notified all the countries involved in October. 



China brushed aside Insikt’s findings. 

“We oppose the spread of disinformation for political purposes to mislead the
international community and sow discord between regional countries,” Chinese
Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Thursday at a regular press briefing
in Beijing.

China has previously dismissed reporting by Recorded Future, including findings
in September this year that Chinese state-sponsored hackers were believed to
have infiltrated and likely stolen data from an Indian government agency
responsible for a national identification base. 




In May, Insikt said it identified suspected Chinese state-sponsored network
intrusion activity targeting “telecommunications, government and state-owned
organizations with Laos.” Both the Lao National Committee for Special Economic
Zones and the National Enterprise Database were identified as targets, it said.
Laos this month inaugurated a nearly $6 billion Chinese-built railway linking
the country with southern China.



The cybersecurity group said the Cambodian foreign ministry along with the
country’s only international and commercial deep sea port, Sihanoukville
Autonomous Port, were targeted in September.



“The scale and scope of China’s cyber espionage program remains unrivaled,
exemplified by the large number of distinct actors with operational taskings
within specific geographic regions,” Insikt group wrote. Those actors, it said,
included “many PLA Strategic Support Force and Ministry of State Security
(MSS)-linked threat activity groups.”

Vietnam’s Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang didn’t address the
report’s specifics, but said in an online briefing Thursday that the government
“always pays close attention to this and has issued various guidelines, policies
and measures to ensure cybersecurity and information safety.” She added that the
country “stands ready to cooperate with the international community on this
matter.”

Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana told Bloomberg he didn’t know of
any recent cyberattacks on the country’s navy, and would task intelligence
officials to look into the matter. Other countries didn’t immediately react to
the report.



 

 

— With assistance by Andreo Calonzo, and Lucille Liu



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