NSA does not confirm nor deny allegations in the media regarding its operations,” an NSA official told Nextgov/FCW.

They claim American hackers carried out a sophisticated cyberattack on critical national infrastructure. China’s Ministry of State Security announced on Sunday that it had uncovered “irrefutable evidence” of cyberattacks allegedly conducted by the US National Security Agency (NSA).

More information has been released after a Seattle tech company said it was hit by a sophisticated cyberattack.

The activity, per ReliaQuest, is the handiwork of a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group called Flax Typhoon, which is also tracked as Ethereal Panda and RedJuliett. According to the U.S. government, it's assessed to be a publicly-traded, Beijing-based company known as Integrity Technology Group.

A breach at U.S.-based cybersecurity company F5 has been blamed on state-backed hackers from China, two people briefed on the investigation said on Thursday.

The security incident was filed to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by the company, F5, Inc., on October 15, and discloses the nature and severity of the issue. F5 says that, in August, it "learned that a highly sophisticated nation-state threat actor had gained unauthorized access to certain Company systems."

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Suspected Chinese government-backed hackers have breached computer systems of US law firm Williams & Connolly, which has represented some of America’s most powerful politicians, as part of a larger spying campaign against multiple law firms,