Norway says Chinese group APT31 is behind catastrophic 2018 government hack

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Norway says Chinese group APT31 is behind catastrophic 2018 government hack
June 19, 2021
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Norway’s police secret service said this week that APT31, a cyber-espionage group operating on behalf of China, was responsible for a 2018 breach of the government’s IT network.

According to the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST), the 2018 hack was as bad as it could get.

“The investigation revealed that the actor succeeded in acquiring administrator rights that gave it access to centralized computer systems used by all state administration offices in the country,” the Norwegian agency said.
The actor also succeeded in transferring some data from the offices’ systems. No reliable technical findings have been made of what information was transferred, but the investigation shows that there were probably usernames and passwords associated with employees in various state administration offices,” it added.
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While in an official press release, the PST did not link the attack to APT31, Hanne Blomberg, the head of counterintelligence at the PST, gave an interview to state television network NRK formally pointing the finger at the Chinese hacking group.

This is the second time in a year that Oslo officials have accused a foreign government of hacking its government network.
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