China’s hacker-for-hire industry
According to court documents, among those charged are two officers from China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS), while the remaining ten worked for Anxun Information Technology, commonly known as i-Soon, a private firm allegedly connected to China’s APT27 hacking group, also called Silk Typhoon.
The hackers reportedly operated both as company employees and as freelancers, conducting attacks at the direction of China’s MPS and MSS while being “motivated by profit,” according to prosecutors.
“Each of these defendants played a critical role in the PRC government hacker-for-hire ecosystem, which by any measure, has gotten out of control,” the DOJ statement added.
