Key Points
- Chinese government-linked hackers swiped at least $20 million in COVID relief funds from the US government, according to the feds.
- APT41, a state-sponsored hacker group in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu, is believed to be behind the attack, the outlet reported.
- “It would be crazy to think this group didn’t target all 50 states,” Roy Dotson, the national pandemic fraud recovery coordinator for the Secret Service, told NBC.
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