A hacker group backed by the Chinese government has breached the networks of at least six US state governments in the past year. Experts are warning of a group of cybercriminals that has been targeting state government computer networks in the United States, according to a new report from American cybersecurity firm Mandiant. The hacker collective, known as APT41, has been deliberately cyber-attacking state-level government networks from May 2021 to February 2022. The group has successfully comprised at least six states’ government networks through the “exploitation of vulnerable Internet-facing web applications, often written in ASP.NET,” the report noted. In most...