The charges mark an escalation in DOJ’s long-running pressure campaign to try to hold alleged Chinese state-sponsored hacking to account.

“The threat and the challenge is persistent. The Chinese remain very aggressive in their use of cyber,” Assistant Secretary of Defense Randall G. Schriver said during a…

Mandiant is pushing back against a claim in David Sanger's new book that its researched was partly aided by 'hacking back' into Chinese government systems.