“The contractors and businesses will hack more or less speculative, motivated by profit to cast a wide net,” says the doj official. The official says: “is promoting reckless and indiscriminate target of vulnerable computers worldwide, even if it is not the fruits of those hacks. It leads to a less safe and more vulnerable environment.”

Shanghai-based firm i-Goon, a contractor from the Ministry of State Security of China (MSS) and the Ministry of Public Safety (MPs) who employed, according to the doj eight of the alleged hackers, in some cases his Chinese government clients charged on how many e-mails would be able to break, according to the charge of $ 10.000 inbox. According to the accusation, the company, which has more than 100 employees, earned ten millions of dollars to revenue, and its managers predicted that it would be in an income of about $ 75 million by 2025. Prosecutors also note that the company worked with 43 different bureaus of the MSS and MPs in 31 provinces of China, which operated independently and bought the same products from the i-gannet.

I-go, whose alleged hacker-for-rental operations were previously unveiled in a leak of its internal documents and communications last year, its clients have a “zero-day vulnerability arsenal” of inappropriate, hackable defects, according to the accusation. It is also allegedly sold a password-crunchy instruments and euphemistically mentioned “penetration testing” products called-which, according to prosecutors, are actually intended to be used on unconscious victims-which allegedly included targeted phishing tools, as well as tools to put malware into file attachments.

The company also allegedly carried out its own focus on victims, which, according to the DoJ, included specific media outlets, dissidents, religious leaders and researchers who were critical of the Chinese government, as well as the New York Government Meeting, one of whom received representatives’ Ne post from an unnamed religious group banned in China.

Yin Kecheng and Zhou Shuai, a suspected co -worker in the APT27, or Silk Typhoon, group, are accused of cutting a wide range of defense contractors, thinking tanks, a law firm, a managed communications service provider and other victims. In December, the software contractor firm Beyondtrust warned the US Treasury that the department had been violated for an indentation on Beyondtrust’s network – an operation attributed to Silk Typhoon. In collaboration with the charges of the Justice Department today, Microsoft has also released a guide for Silk Typhoon’s operating techniques, emphasizing how it wants to utilize the IT supply chain.

In Yin’s communication with a colleague included in the indictment against him, the colleague suggests that, rather than go directly to major victim organizations, they target their subsidiaries and note that “they are the same and easier to attack.” Yin responds and agrees that the strategy is ‘correct’.

All the 12 Chinese citizens charged in the accusations remain great – and chances are good that the inside of an American courtroom will never see. But the State Department announced rewards for information that led to their arrest between $ 2 million and $ 10 million each.

“To those who choose to help the CCP with his illegal cyber activities,” writes Bryan Vorndran, assistant director of the FBI’s cyber department, in a statement, using the term CCP to refer to the Chinese Communist Party, “these charges must demonstrate that we will use all available instruments to identify and expose you to your world.”