Czech FM summons Chinese ambassador over cyberattack

China's ambassador to the Czech Republic was summoned connected Wednesday implicit a cyberattack that targeted Prague's overseas ministry, Czech officials said.The Czech overseas ministry said an extended probe of the onslaught "led to a precocious grade of certainty astir the liable actor", naming it arsenic China-linked radical APT31."I summoned the Chinese ambassador to marque wide that specified hostile actions person superior consequences for our bilateral relations," overseas curate Jan Lipavsky said connected X.

The overseas ministry said successful a connection the onslaught started successful 2022 and targeted "one of the unclassified networks" of the ministry."The malicious activity... was perpetrated by the cyberespionage histrion APT31 that is publically associated with the (Chinese) Ministry of State Security," the ministry added, citing its investigation."We telephone connected the People's Republic of China to... refrain from specified attacks and to instrumentality each due measures to code this situation," said the ministry.Lipavsky said that "we detected the attackers during the intrusion".The Czech Security Information Office (BIS) singled retired China arsenic a menace to information successful its 2024 yearly report."The Chinese embassy logically focuses connected gaining accusation astir the Czech governmental scene," the BIS said.