The US Treasury Department on Friday imposed sanctions on a Beijing-based cybersecurity company for its alleged role in multiple hacking incidents targeting critical US infrastructure.
The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control has imposed sanctions on Integrity Technology Group, Inc. Friday morning, for conducting several hacking operations against American victims, including incidents attributed to Flax Typhoon, a Chinese state-sponsored campaign targeting critical U.S. infrastructure.
The sanctions come just days after the Treasury Department announced that Chinese hackers gained remote access to several US Treasury workstations and unclassified documents in a major cybersecurity incident.
The Treasury Department said it became aware of the issue on December 8, when a third-party software service provider, BeyondTrust, reported that hackers had stolen a key “used by the vendor to secure a cloud-based service used to provide remote technical support.” “For the workers.
The sanctions imposed on Friday do not appear to be related to the December 8 hack of the Treasury Department.
Acting Under Secretary of the Treasury Bradley Smith said the United States will disrupt cyber threats “as we continue to work collaboratively to strengthen cyber defenses in the public and private sectors.”
The sanctions block access to US property and bank accounts and prevent targeted people and companies from doing business with Americans.
U.S. officials continue to grapple with the fallout from a massive Chinese cyberespionage campaign known as “Salt Typhoon” that gave officials in Beijing access to the private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans.
