Chinese hackers acquired and used National Security Agency hacking tools in 2016 and used them to carry out cyberattacks, a new report has found
In the report, the cybersecurity company Symantec claims that a Chinese hacker group associated with Chinese government intelligence conducted a hacking campaign using a tool that at the time was only known to be the property of the NSA.Though Symantec doesn't name particular agencies in its report, the Chinese group in question was an arm of China's Ministry of State Security in Guangzhou, which went dark after the US Department of Justice indicted three of its members in November 2017.
That included one Windows exploit that both North Korea and Russian intelligence services used to create the two most damaging ransomware strains in history, prompting international condemnation.But those were different variants of the NSA tools than the ones Symantec found that China was using.It's unclear how the tool got into Chinese hands. The NSA didn't respond to request for comment.
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