Prague accuses China of hacking Czech foreign ministry – EU also slams Beijing for “malicious cyber campaign.”

> The Czech government on Wednesday condemned China for carrying out a cyberattack against its foreign ministry exposing thousands of unclassified emails.

>Czechia said that the Chinese state-sponsored group Advanced Persistent Threat 31 (APT31) targeted the foreign ministry from 2022 — the year the country held the rotating EU presidency — and was able to read unclassified emails sent between embassies and EU institutions.

>The Czech foreign minister, Jan Lipavský, said he would summon the Chinese ambassador immediately to explain the findings and tell him this would damage the countries’ bilateral relations.

> “With today’s move, we have exposed China, which has long been working to undermine our resilience and democracy,” Lipavský said. “Through cyberattacks, information manipulation, and propaganda, it interferes in our society — and we must defend ourselves against that.”

>It is the first time the Czech government has attributed a national cyberattack to a state-backed actor.

>An investigation conducted by the Security Information Service, Military Intelligence, Office for Foreign Relations and Information, and National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NUKIB) provided Czech authorities with a high degree of certainty about who was behind the targeting of the ministry.

> The alleged Chinese hack sparked outrage in Brussels, among the EU’s top brass and at NATO headquarters.

China is once again trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

And I heard so many people say on this sub how Europe would pivot to China…