China sets up special base for ‘cyber warriors’

[rcrmj]

Yes so used to Piracy and Patent violations thanks to copy cat

this 'copy cat' needs to learn a lot of things from this mooing cow to be despised by others

 

[shuttler]

China is 'world's largest hacking victim,' ambassador says

12.09.12 @ 19:32

BRUSSELS - China’s ambassador to the EU, Wu Hailong, on Wednesday (12 September) refuted a recent Bloomberg report that hackers linked to his government had broken into the email accounts of 11 senior EU officials, including one belonging to EU Council president Herman Van Rompuy.


"I think China is the largest victim in terms of hacker attacks," said China's ambassador to the EU, Wu Hailong (Photo: ec.europa.eu)
"I read this story and I think there are many more similar cases reported in recent years. I think China is the largest victim in terms of hacker attacks," said Hailong.

Hailong said Chinese agencies and businesses are beingattacked on a daily basis but choose to keep quiet, unlike some Western counterparts.

"There is a cultural difference. In the EU, people go to the media. The same happens in China, but we do not go to the media. We firmly oppose hacking," he said.

A US-led investigation last summer claimed a hacker group with links to China's military, the People's Liberation Army, infiltrated and stole information, including attachments, from the EU institutions' email accounts.

The attacks took place over a period of four days in July 2011.

The Bloomberg report said the attacks are possibly part of a larger pattern to secure trade advantages by the Chinese. Other targets included lawyers working on anti-trust claims against China.

Wu's comments come ahead of the 15th EU-China summit on 20 September.

"It is the most important event in China-EU ties in 2012," said Hailong, who noted that it will also be Wen Jiabao, the outgoing Chinese premier's, final visit to the EU as a head of state.

Some 80 percent of China's exports end up in Europe.

The summit aims to help address the brewing trade disputes between the two sides. Among them is the recent anti-dumping investigation into imports of solar panels from China by the European Commission.

The European Commission claims sufficient evidence has been put forward to conduct a 15-month investigation into the multi-billion-euro industry.

Hailong noted that a negative outcome of the investigation could have potentially damaging affects on EU industry. While the panels are made in China "the machinery and technology was all from Europe, and specifically Germany" he said.

Meanwhile, the commission on Wednesday set up the EU's Computer Emergency Response Team, or CERT-EU, in order to better defend itself against cyber espionage in future.

Commission administration chief Maros Sefcovic noted that EU institutions are "frequently the target of information security incidents." The CERT-EU will be tasked to protect institutions from an ever greater and more sophisticated attempts by hackers to infiltrate the systems.

The project had already been in place as a pilot for the past year but has proven itself effective at thwarting attacks, claims the commission.

Sefcovic's spokesperson, Antony Gravili, would not comment on the origin of the attacks, but noted that even if such attacks were "routed via computers in China [it] does not mean it is an attack by the Chinese."

*************

It is super funny to see the indian cheerleading puppets dance feverishly to the tune of their master! For what? Scoring points on your visa quotas?

 

[Ayush]

so, , what's wrong. this hi-fi technique is called self - defence.

 

[djsjs]

American drama
the last time before it is a private school called Shandong Lanxiang skilled worker school ,students are those who cann't get entrance for colleges.it spends a lot of money advertising on many TV channels with little success, luckly americans make it world famous, what a joke.

 

[GR!FF!N]

Not too long ago, China's network of hackers was often described as a loose collection of freelancers, who sought to penetrate the computer systems of international businesses and governments out of a mix of nationalist fervor and opportunism. But security experts have increasingly come to see both political and industrial espionage as the work of professional intelligence agencies. This view has given added credence by a new report from the computer security firm Mandiant. According to Mandiant, the Chinese army is running a veritable hacking factory in the suburbs of Shanghai – and doing contract work for China's vast state-owned companies.

Mandiant's report claims that a group known for several years as “APT1,” one of the world's most prolific groups of hackers, is almost certainly part of PLA Unit 61398. Unit 61398, a bureau of the Chinese signals intelligence service, has been previously connected to cyber-warfare, but not to specific intrusions. The report claims that it has been responsible for dozens of attacks on foreign companies and governments (which it doesn’t name due to confidentiality agreements) although it seems to be primarily responsible for spying on English-speaking organizations.

The report comes as concern is rising about cyber-espionage. The American administration is reported to be planning action. It is one of two this week tracing Chinese attacks to their source – the other, from Dell's SecureWorks via Bloomberg, puts a face to the attacks but reveals little about his institutional links. It is worth noting that both SecureWorks and Mandiant stand to profit as businesses become more worried about internet security.

There are serious implications for national security and trade policy, which experts will cover better than I can. But if true, Mandiant's report also demonstrates a startling fact about China's political economy – that big business has so much power that it is able to wield the country's national security apparatus to get a leg up in contract negotiations. It is as though Goldman Sachs were able to use the wiretapping expertise of the NSA in order to get a leg up on its overseas competitors.

Mandiant argues that the work of the 61398 group has been driven by China's drive to turn its largest State owned enterprises (SOEs) into “national champions” capable of taking on global competitors in international markets – many of its known cases focused on the strategic emerging industries, a set chosen by China's leaders to receive enormous regulatory and market advantages. Most specific cases are unnamed, but Mandiant told Bloomberg that Chinese hackers supported CNOOC's 2011 effort to bid for Chesapeake Energy's natural gas division, looking through its investment bank’s files in a form of shadow “due diligence.”

Perhaps the most extravagant case is described in the New York Times story – in which, while Coca-Cola was in talks to buy China's largest private maker of fruit juices, the 61398 group broke into its systems, evidently trying to find information about its negotiating strategy.

Although these cases are not entirely disconnected from national security – the CNOOC-Chesapeake deal was an effort to acquire technology for natural gas "fracking," which China sees as critical to its energy security – they are mostly about profits. Look at China's oil holdings in Venezuela, acquired at premium prices and greased by government-subsidized loans, which look increasingly like a boondoggle. Despite the state’s subsidization of the oil deals it appears that a significant amount of the oil Chinese companies buy from Venezuela is sold on the global market rather than being shipped back to China.

Even so, major Chinese companies seem to be using the intelligence capabilities of the army to support profit-seeking business activities – effectively nationalizing the reputation risk of corporate espionage, rather as Chinese banks have been accused of nationalizing the credit risk of lending to SOEs and local governments. Chinese companies have been caught stealing technology from and spying on American rivals – but their use of the army's intelligence assets makes the problem a diplomatic issue, and creates the risk of sanctions that will affect the entire Chinese economy. If there is to be a price for the SOE's bad behavior, it looks as though the country as a whole will have to pay it.


The Growing Spotlight on China's Cyber Activities - China Power

 

[Zoro]

Here is the download link for the report.

Mandiant Intelligence Center Report | Mandiant®

btw Mandiant did not give credit to other AV vendors who provided necessary information to them on this particular group.

 

[Zabaniyah]

It's all fun and games when one loses his password!

 

[asianamerican]

American main objectives when report on China is to distort, defame, and distract. They distort the truth, defame their competitors, and distract from their own criminal enterprise. As if the US, which created the internet and much of the software in the world doesn't hack into every government and siphoning off your info as we speak.

The US has more hackers and sponsored cyber criminals than China, but you won't hear from the the American press. The only reason why you read news about China is because most of the world just regurgitate Western media crap and think they know everything.