Five Eyes Countries Condemn Communist China’s Global Hacking Campaign

A man types on a computer keyboard in Warsaw on Feb. 28, 2013. Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United Kingdom have expressed serious concern over a group acting on behalf of the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) that is stealing commercial intellectual property in a malicious global hacking campaign, widely known as Cloud Hopper, as of Dec. 21, 2018. Kacper Pempel/Reuters

Five Eyes countries of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United Kingdom have followed the United States in expressing serious concern over a group’s actions to steal commercial intellectual property on behalf of China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) through a malicious global hacking campaign, widely known as Cloud Hopper.

The countries each issued public statements condemning the hacking group known in global intelligence circles as Advanced Persistent Threat 10, or APT 10, all within a day of the indictment of two Chinese nationals by the United States for their alleged membership in the group.