US & UK Target Chinese Hackers

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a Chinese company responsible for a wide range a wide of "malicious cyber operations" targeting high-ranking U.S. government officials including staff at the White House; the Departments of Justice, Commerce, the Treasury, and State; members of Congress, including both Democrat and Republican Senators; the United States Naval Academy; and the United States Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute.

The organization also is responsible for cyber attacks on multiple Defense Industrial Base victims, including a defense contractor that manufactured flight simulators for the U.S. military, a Tennessee-based aerospace and defense contractor, and an Alabama-based aerospace and defense research corporation. Additionally, APT 31 actors gained unauthorized access to a Texas-based energy company, as well as a California-based managed service provider.