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Halifax police investigating Monday morning Dartmouth death as suspicious | SaltWire #newsupdate - The United States and Britain filed charges and imposed sanctions on a company and individuals tied to a Chinese state-backed hacking group named APT31 that they allege engaged in a sweeping cyber espionage campaign.

Separately, the New Zealand government claimed on March 25 that another state-backed Chinese hacking group, APT40, was behind a hack of its parliament in 2021.APT31 and Chinese security authorities targeted thousands of U.S. and foreign politicians, foreign policy experts and others as part of the MSS's foreign intelligence and economic espionage objectives according to the U.S. Individuals in the White House, State Department, and spouses of officials were also targets.

The U.S. Treasury department's office of foreign assets control sanctioned Wuhan XRZ and 7 Chinese individuals on March 25, including Ni Gaobin and Zhao Guangzong.

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