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The United States accused 12 Chinese citizens, including two public security officials, with a campaign involved in the infiltrators to rent on behalf of Beijing, whose goals included US government agencies.

The Ministry of Justice charged 10 Chinese citizens of claiming its leadership campaign for a period of time at a time at the request of Chinese intelligence agencies and the police.

He also claims that they sold the data obtained through the penetration of the Chinese Ministry of Security and the Public Security Department.

“Today, we offer Chinese government agents who direct and enable random and reckless attacks against computers and networks all over the world,” said Suo Bay, head of the National Security Department of the US Department of Justice.

According to the Ministry of Justice, 10 suspects-including two MPS-officials in a Chinese company called I-SOON, which was born millions of dollars in a large-scale ecosystem.

She said that I-SOON conducted a penetration at the MSS and MPS request, but also received data through an independent piracy, which he sold to security agencies at a cost ranging between $ 10,000 -75,000 dollars per e-mail used.

“The Chinese Ministry of Public Security has pushed the infiltrators to rent them to have digital harm to Americans criticizing the Chinese Communist Party,” said Brian Forendran, Assistant Director of the Internet Department at the FBI.

The Ministry of Justice said that the goals of the piracy campaign included a religious organization criticizing the Chinese government and the US -based media rights group.

The infiltrators also targeted the foreign ministries in Taiwan, India, South Korea and Indonesia.

A FBI official said that I-SOON was a “major player” in the ecological system of information security in China over the past decade, and has sometimes used 100 people. He said that the company had estimated that it would generate revenues of $ 75 million by 2025.

“The bottom line here is PRC[People’s Republic of China]. . . The official said: “The agents and third -party companies are used to provoke their goals and goals by conducting these electronic operations against the United States.”

The Ministry of Justice has also accused Zhou Shui and Yin Kecheng, two members of a group of piracy known as APT27, due to the alleged participation in multiple “computer infiltration campaigns”.

Yin was allegedly participated in an attack on the US Treasury from September to December 2024.

An American official said that Chu was “a very big person in the piracy community in China and was involved in the brokerage data obtained by penetration around the world.”

The official added: “His participation is deep and long, and the fact that he was charged with accusing him is an indication of everyone that there are no people who cross the law.”

The FBI official added that religious individuals were not in contact with Salt Tefip, an alleged Chinese attack for months on American telecommunications networks that allowed the infiltrators to target any unprocessed phone call in the United States.

in A recent interview With Financial Times, former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said that Solt Tefv was unique because of the “massive accession” achieved by the piracy campaign.

The Chinese embassy in Washington said it is opposing its efforts to impose its “long jurisdiction” on China.

“We urge the United States to stop using cybersecurity issues to distort China and stop misuse of illegal sanctions,” said Liu Bingio, a spokesman for the Chinese embassy.