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| FBI Arrest Chinese National Linked to OPM Data Breach Malware |
| 2017-08-25 |
| [GIZ] A 36-year-old Chinese national was arrested in Los Angeles this week in connection with a computer hacking conspiracy involving malware linked to the 2014 US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach. Yu Pingan of Shanghai, China, was arrested on Wednesday while traveling at Los Angeles International Airport. Also identified by the hacker pseudonym "GoldSun," Yu has been charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and is further accused of conspiracy to commit offense or defraud the United States. According to an August 21 indictment , filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of California, Yu collaborated with others, including two unnamed individuals who have not been charged, to acquire and use malware to facilitate cyberattacks against at least four unnamed US companies. The incitement was accompanied by an affidavit signed by an agent assigned to a cybercrime squad at the FBI San Diego Field Office. The FBI has identified Yu's co-conspirators as living in the People's Republic of China. A spokesperson for the agency could not be immediately reached for a comment. In a timeline laid out in the indictment, Yu is accused of discussing the installation of a remote access trojan, or RAT, on an unidentified company in June 2011. Roughly a year later, a conspirator allegedly installed malicious files on the network of a San Diego-based company. The same company was allegedly attacked again on or before December 3, 2013. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 2014 US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach... installation of a remote access trojan, or RAT, on an unidentified company in June 2011. Roughly a year later, a conspirator allegedly installed malicious files on the network of a San Diego-based company. The same company was allegedly attacked again on or before December 3, 2013 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014... and it took until 2017 to do something. Perhaps the Soetoro-era intelligence community and the Justice Department probably had other, more pressing, matters. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-08-25 10:28 |
| #3 At least he's not named Robert Lee. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-08-25 09:50 |
| #2 Well, they've militarized computer networks as well. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-08-25 09:05 |
| #1 Are these the same long-standing trade partners and 'friends' who continue to militarize the South China Sea and cannot keep their NORK dog curbed ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-08-25 04:01 |