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China hacked US Treasury’s CFIUS, which reviews foreign investments for national security risks
The hackers targeting the Treasury are dubbed Silk Typhoon, and previously mass-hacked thousands of corporate email servers.
Chinese hackers have reportedly breached a key office within the U.S. Treasury tasked with reviewing foreign investments and transactions that could threaten U.S. national security. CNN reports, citing U.S. officials familiar with the incident, that the Chinese hackers targeted the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, which can approve or deny deals that present national security risks, such as corporate mergers and takeovers or deals that involve sensitive U.S. information. U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA said this week that there was no indication that the hackers had broken into any other U.S. government department as part of the campaign.
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