US Justice Dept announces $10 million bounty on at-large 'hacker-for-hire' cabal it says targeted China critics, religious missionaries, and the Treasury

An FBI wanted poster for alleged hacker Zhou Shuai.

The US Department of Justice announced yesterday that it's charging 12 alleged Chinese hackers over a string of cyber-attacks supposedly undertaken on behalf of China's Public and State Security Ministries (the MPS and MSS, respectively).

"Victims include US-based critics and dissidents of the PRC, a large religious organization in the United States, the foreign ministries of multiple governments in Asia, and US federal and state government agencies," says the DOJ.