APT3 hacking collective has ties to Chinese government

Cybersecurity experts from Recorded Future think the cybercrime group we know as APT3 is on the Chinese Ministry of State Security’s payroll. It bases its conclusions on the work of "intrusiontruth," a group claiming to have investigated some of the most important APT actors. Analyzing APT3’s C&C infrastructure, it came across two names, Wu Yingzhuo and Dong Hao, who allegedly registered many of the domains that the threat actors had used. Both names are also shareholders for a China-based security firm Guangzhou Boyu Information Technology Company, or Boyusec. According to the Washington Free Beacon, Boyusec worked with Huawei to create… [Continue Reading]