中国背景のハッカー集団を注意喚起　「ＡＰＴ４０」、８カ国共同で―警察庁

　警察庁は９日、オーストラリアや米国など７カ国と共同で、中国を背景とするサイバー攻撃集団「ＡＰＴ４０」に関する注意喚起文書を公表した。サイバー攻撃の抑止を目的に、攻撃者や背後の国家機関を明らかにする「パブリック・アトリビューション」で、日本では７例目。
　文書は豪州通信電子局が作成し、日本や米国、英国、カナダ、ニュージーランド、ドイツ、韓国の関係機関が署名した。（2024/07/09-13:23）

Japan's National Police Agency issued Tuesday a seven-nation joint alert against attacks by a Chinese government-backed hacker group.
   The public attribution of cyberattacks on private-sector and government institutions to the group called APT40 was made by the Australian Signals Directorate and signed by relevant institutions in Japan, the United States, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Germany and South Korea.
   Based in China's Hainan Province, APT40 is believed to be contracted for operations by the country's State Security Ministry, according to the document.
   In Australia, where public- and private-sector entities have repeatedly fallen prey to APT40 attacks, hundreds of usernames and passwords were stolen from an organization's network in 2022.
   The NPA sees the state-sponsored hacker group has been operating since 2009, or earlier. In Japan, the agency has detected several attacks on companies including in the critical chemical infrastructure industry in the past 10 years.