Czechs Blame China for Cyberattack Against Foreign Ministry (3)

State-linked Chinese hackers were behind a cyberattack against the Czech Foreign Ministry’s unclassified networks, according to the government in Prague.

Czech security authorities are investigating activity that began in 2022 by APT31, a Chinese hacking group that is associated with the Ministry of State Security, the Czech Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

The central European country’s vocal criticism of human-rights violations in China, as well as active diplomatic and business ties with Taiwan, have repeatedly angered the government in Beijing. Czech counter-intelligence services have identified Chinese spying and intellectual-property theft among the biggest security threats.

The Chinese ...