Chinese hackers may have struck Keidanren system in 2016

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http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201901130021.html

By Tatsuya Sudo
Senior Staff Writer
The Asahi Shimbun
January 13, 2019

A Chinese group that has been accused by the U.S. government in a series of
cybertheft cases around the world is now suspected in the 2016 hacking of the
computer system used by Keidanren (Japan Business Federation).

Keidanren officials announced in November 2016 that 23 computers used in the
federation's system had been infected with a virus. However, no details were
released about what hacking group might have been behind the cyberattack.

The types of computer viruses used in the Keidanren attack as well as the
external computer addresses to which information was secretly transmitted were
very similar to those that have turned up in a separate report conducted by a
number of British entities.

The report said that a Chinese hacking group identified as Advanced Persistent
Threat (APT) 10 was responsible for "systematically targeting Japanese
organizations."

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