Scoop: The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency warned contractors this week that a China-linked hacking group has targeted 38 cleared facilities--i.e. those w/access to classified info--including those specializing in healthcare technology. politico.com/news/2020/04/1…
Cleared contractor facilities often receive warnings about hacking attempts from the FBI and DCSA, but the notices rarely attribute the malicious activity to a specific group or nation-state as the DCSA did with Electric Panda/China. politico.com/news/2020/04/1…
The warning comes as tensions rise between the US and China over the spread of Covid-19, with U.S. intel agencies examining the possibility that the virus was accidentally leaked from a lab. There is currently no evidence to support that theory, per sources familiar w/the matter.
