A group of Chinese hackers carried out coordinated cyberattacks on Israel that affected dozens of Israeli government and private organizations, according to a report from U.S. security company FireEye released Tuesday. Israeli government institutions, IT providers and telecommunications firms were targeted by the group in a widespread espionage campaign that began in January 2019, the California-based cybersecurity firm said in its report, noting that the hackers carried out data harvesting and reconnaissance. FireEye, which worked alongside Israeli defence agencies in probing the cyberattacks, noted that it did not have sufficient evidence to link the Chinese espionage group, called UNC215, to the Chinese communist regime. It added, however, that the group targets data and organizations which are of “great interest to Beijing’s financial, diplomatic, and strategic objectives.” UNC215 is a Chinese espionage operation that has been suspected of targeting organizations around the world since at least 2014, the report states. In …