July 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –
A group of China-based hackers has accessed the email of the US ambassador to the Asian country, Nicholas Burns, and two other senior officials, in the midst of a campaign to collect intelligence data, three US officials have reported. to .
The other two affected are Daniel Kritenbrik, assistant for East Asia to the Secretary of the State Department, Antony Blinken, and the Secretary of the Department of Commerce, Gina Raimondo.
In addition, hackers have reached the US government’s unclassified email system, although US officials work on the assumption that any file on this network can be subjected to cyber espionage.
According to the aforementioned source, the White House believes that these operations have allowed Beijing to find out the US position regarding Blinken’s visit to China last June.
The US authorities suffered another attack on July 12 in which hackers accessed numerous email accounts of two dozen organizations, including some US Government agencies.
This “apparent” espionage campaign was aimed at obtaining sensitive information, according to statements from Microsoft and the White House collected by .
In fact, a State Department official has assured that Blinken discussed the incident with Chinese diplomat Wang Yi at their meeting last week. The Secretary of State assured that, although he could not give details about it, he assured that the incident was being investigated.
US officials have repeated in recent years that China is “the most advanced of adversaries” in cyberspace, and the FBI has claimed that Beijing has a hacking program larger than all other countries combined, something that China has denied, according to the aforementioned chain.
Add to that recent reports of a “sophisticated team” behind the attacks, which is why government and Microsoft analysts had trouble identifying how they accessed the accounts.
