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The US DOJ indicts "Two Chinese Hackers Associated With the Ministry of State Security Charged with Global Computer Intrusion Campaigns Targeting Intellectual Property and Confidential Business Information"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-chinese-hackers-associated-ministry-state-security-charged-global-computer-intrusion …
"the UK has announced that a group known as APT 10 acted on behalf of the Chinese Ministry of State Security to carry out a malicious cyber campaign targeting intellectual property and sensitive commercial data in Europe, Asia and the US."https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-allies-reveal-global-scale-of-chinese-cyber-campaign …
"New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) has established links between the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) and a global campaign of cyber-enabled commercial intellectual property theft" https://www.gcsb.govt.nz/news/cyber-campaign-attributed-to-china/ …
the Australian government joins other international partners in expressing serious concern about a global campaign of cyber-enabled commercial intellectual property theft by a group known as APT10, acting on behalf of the Chinese Ministry of State Securityhttps://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKCN1OJ2OC …
Canada's "CSE assesses that it is almost certain that actors likely associated with the People’s Republic of China Ministry of State Security are responsible for the compromise of several Managed Service Providers, beginning as early as 2016" https://cse-cst.gc.ca/en/media/media-2018-12-20 …
Did anyone else come out officially? I haven't see any statements from the German, French, Japanese government. If they come out, it will be interesting to see which agency/ministry will do the announcement. German BND or Foreign Ministry? Also, nothing from the EU yet either.
Dutch Foreign Ministry merely points to annual reports of AIVD/MIVD: https://twitter.com/DutchMFA/status/1075822750877581312 … Dutch AIVD tweets: "Also Dutch companies have been hit by this cyber campaign, this shows that NL is an interesting target for espionage."https://twitter.com/AIVD/status/1075835017941667840 …
Danish MFA&MoD tweet: "DK shares concern about commercial espionage, including from China, which goes against the rules-based international order and threatens to undermine our economy. We will continue to promote responsible state behavior in cyberspace"https://twitter.com/DanishMFA/status/1075842890461532161 …
My current assessment: Again it's only the Five Eyes countries doing the heavy lifting on public attribution. Pretty much all of the European governments are silent or latch onto the assessment with some general support message on twitter. EU and NATO are nowhere to be found.
State Department and Homeland Security just released a joint statement: "Since at least 2014, Chinese cyber actors associated with the Chinese Ministry of State Security have hacked multiple U.S. and global managed service and cloud providers."https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2018/12/288229.htm …
Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs Timo Soini: "Finland again reiterates her concern on continued malicious activities in cyberspace undermining international law. We require responsible state behavior"https://twitter.com/Ulkoministerio/status/1075831227276496901 …
Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Margot Wallstrom: "Share concerns expressed about state-sponsored malicious cyber activities. Campaigns like the so called Cloud Hopper erode trust in cyberspace and threaten the global connectivity which we all rely on"https://twitter.com/margotwallstrom/status/1075832382064914432 …
Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs: "Japan has identified continuous attacks by the group known as APT10 to various domestic targets including private companies and academic institutions and expresses resolute condemnation of such attacks."https://www.mofa.go.jp/press/release/press4e_002281.html …
For all those keeping count: Of the 12 countries mentioned in the DOJ indictment, 6 have not put out any kind of statement (Germany, France, Brazil, UAE, Switzerland, India)
India will definitely stay silent given that Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is currently visiting the countryhttps://twitter.com/MEAIndia/status/1075999832949420032?s=19 …
Five weeks after the "Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace," the silence of the French government is all there is to know.
When pressed by journalists, Deputy-spokesperson for the German government Ulrike Demmer notes that: "We have great confidence in the attribution of APT10 to Chinese government agencies as made by different partner countries"https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/regierungspressekonferenz-vom-21-dezember-2018-1563932 …
No active engagement by the German government, no written statement by none of the ministries. Germany had to be dragged and kicked to make that announcement. Weak sauce.
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