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U.S. charges Chinese Winnti hackers for attacking 100+ companies

The U.S. Department of Justice announced today charges against five Chinese nationals. Five hackers are currently at large and are the newest addition to the Cyber’s Most Wanted list from the FBI. APT41 has been active for more than a decade and is also known as Barium, Wicked Panda/Spider. The hackers stole source code, software code signing certificates, customer account data, personally identifiable information, and deployed sophisticated supply-chain attacks [CCleaner, ShadowPad, ShadowHammer] If caught, the three hackers face a maximum sentence of more than 70 years of prison time.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-charges-chinese-winnti-hackers-for-attacking-100-plus-companies/

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