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As such, SentinelLabs built a free file decryption tool available for Clop victims, which the company tells TechCrunch it has also shared with law enforcement.

However, SentinelOne SentinelLabs Senior Director Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade noted that the latest SoftCell activity was not associated with attacks by other Chinese hacking groups WIP26 and against telecommunications firms in the Middle East.

A trove of documents from I-Soon, a private contractor that competed for Chinese government contracts, shows that its hackers compromised more than a dozen governments, according to cybersecurity firms SentinelLabs and Malwarebytes.