Chinese hacking group harvesting data from companies, says security firm

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Edinburgh — A Chinese government-linked hacking group that was thought to be dormant has been quietly targeting companies and government agencies for the last two years, harvesting data after stealing passwords and circumventing two-factor authentication intended to prevent such attacks, according to researchers.

The hackers probably belong to a group known as APT20, according to the researchers, who said they had “high confidence that the actor is a Chinese group and that they are likely working to support the interests of the Chinese government”. The hackers would usually gain entry to an organisation’s systems by exploiting a vulnerability on web servers that the company or government agency operated. They would then penetrate further to identify people — usually system administrators — with privileged access to the most sensitive parts of the computer network, according to Fox-IT’s report.The hackers would place key logger software on system administrators’ computers, which record keystrokes and can reveal passwords.

 

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