The United States announced on Wednesday that it had disrupted a Chinese hacking operation responsible for infiltrating several sensitive government agencies, including the U.S. Justice Department, NASA, the Federal Reserve, and the U.S. Senate. In a statement, the Justice Department revealed that it had seized domains associated with two hacking platforms, “QScan” and “QTRouter,” which were allegedly utilized in the campaign. An affidavit further identified the U.S. Department of Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, and four unnamed companies in the United States and South Korea as additional victims of the hacking group.

The Justice Department attributed the operation to a China-based firm, Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company, which it claimed had clients including China’s civilian intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security, and the military, the People’s Liberation Army. The affidavit stated that the group’s computer infrastructure had been employed to compromise critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks in the U.S. and globally since at least 2018. Experts familiar with Chinese cyber activity noted that private contractors often conduct high-profile intrusions on behalf of various Chinese government agencies, with the number of companies offering niche offensive services having significantly increased over the past decade. Source

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