Beijing’s Ministry of State Security has urged citizens to step up their cybersecurity as attacks by overseas agencies have been ‘rampant’

Hackers used large language models to seek information on rival intelligence agencies and "notable individuals" and also to develop code “with potential malicious intent”

Intelligence chiefs in The Netherlands said the cyber gang breached an armed forces network but tech firms like ASML were also targets

Insomniac had refused to pay a $2 million ransom and the files included details about the next Wolverine game release

The plan comes amid Beijing’s push to tamp down national security risks and heightened concerns around large-scale data leaks and hacking

The allies say Pyongyang uses cybercrime profits to gather funds for its nuclear and missile programmes

China’s Ministry of State Security made the claims in a report titled “Uncovering the main despicable means of cyberattacks and secret theft by US intelligence agencies”

The cyber attack revelation comes just weeks after a trip to Pyongyang by Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu

China's embassy in London said the accusation was "disinformation" and called the US government "the world's biggest hacking empire and global cyber thief"

Representative Jerrold Nadler, chair of the House judiciary committee, said that "three hostile foreign actors" had attacked the courts' document filing system

The consultancy urged state authorities to restrict Chinese government-owned companies from state purchase and contracts and restrict university partnerships

Three US agencies said Pyongyang dispatches thousands of information technology workers worldwide, taking advantage of existing demands for specific skills