UK says Chinese cyberattacks ‘part of large-scale espionage campaign’

The UK government has accused China of two malicious cyberattacks against the country’s democratic institutions and members of Parliament. Specifically, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has found that a Chinesestate-affiliated cyber actor, nicknamed Advanced Persistent Threat Group 31 (APT31), was almost certainly responsible for online reconnaissance activity in 2021, targeting the email accounts of MPs. The NCSC also deemed it highly likely that China state-backed actors were behind the data breach at the UK Electoral Commission between 2021 and 2022. Paul Chichester, Director of Operations at the agency, characterised these activities as “indicative of a wider pattern of unacceptable…

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