posing as other countries to conduct global cyberattacks and espionage operations, while also pouring dirty water on non-US allies like China, according to an investigative report published on Monday.
The US government has imposed sanctions on Chinese cybersecurity firm Sichuan Silence Information Technology and one of its employees, Guan Tianfeng, for their alleged involvement in a 2020 global cyberattack that exploited zero day vulnerabilities in firewalls. The actions were announced by ...
China strongly condemned on Monday the cyberattack launched by the United States on the email system of Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, saying that the attack severely endangered national security. According to a report published on Monday, there is clear evidence tha...
The U.S. and its allies have accused China of a global computer hacking and cyberspying campaign. The Biden administration has threatened to take action. Ed O'Keefe has more.
BEIJING, Feb. 21 (Xinhuanet) – China's military and government have both dismissed US allegations of cyber attacks. They say China has never supported any hacking activities, and they denounced a report by the US cyber security firm Mandiant’s as having no factual, technical or legal basis...
backdoor programs. The media later reported that the recent investigation found very complex backdoor malware that fit the characteristics of US intelligence agencies. This was the latest example of the US cyber attack on China’s critical Chinese infrastructure with a clear military reconnaissance ...
Without another scapegoat to pin the blame on, Americans are naming China as the culprit of a series of cyber attacks because, well, why not? Jim Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies tells Reuters that China is likely to blame for a massive series of cyber crimes that...
Anthem reported a massive cyberattack last February by Chinese hackers when 78.8 million customers’ personal information was accessed. After an investigation, the FBI says the hack was done to learn about the U.S. healthcare system rather than to sell the stolen data. The breach included 14...
Cyber-espionage, phishing and other forms of cyber-attack are often blamed on China, with or without evidence. But US security firm Mandiant has now produced a report that provides significant detail about a Chinese military unit it says is engaged in such activities....
China’s Foreign Minister was right to say that China and the U.S. are not in a cyberwar. It is not in China’s interest to attack the U.S. or destabilize Wall Street, as the high degree of economic interdependence means an attack would harm China as much as the U.S. But this ...