Security News > 2024 > December > Chinese APT Exploits BeyondTrust API Key to Access U.S. Treasury Systems and Documents
2024-12-31 05:42
The United States Treasury Department said it suffered a "major cybersecurity incident" that allowed suspected Chinese threat actors to remotely access some computers and unclassified documents. "On December 8, 2024, Treasury was notified by a third-party software service provider, BeyondTrust, that a threat actor had gained access to a key used by the vendor to secure a cloud-based
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