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Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.
Tue, 2013-02-19 00:12
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Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.
Tue, 2013-02-19 00:16
#2
Gotcha! 
Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.
This 12-story building on the outskirts of Shanghai is the headquarters of Unit 61398 of the People’s Liberation Army. China’s defense ministry has denied that it is responsible for initiating digital attacks.
The building off Datong Road, surrounded by restaurants, massage parlors and a wine importer, is the headquarters of P.L.A. Unit 61398. A growing body of digital forensic evidence — confirmed by American intelligence officials who say they have tapped into the activity of the army unit for years — leaves little doubt that an overwhelming percentage of the attacks on American corporations, organizations and government agencies originate in and around the white tower.
An unusually detailed 60-page study, to be released Tuesday by Mandiant, an American computer security firm, tracks for the first time individual members of the most sophisticated of the Chinese hacking groups — known to many of its victims in the United States as “Comment Crew” or “Shanghai Group” — to the doorstep of the military unit’s headquarters. The firm was not able to place the hackers inside the 12-story building, but makes a case there is no other plausible explanation for why so many attacks come out of one comparatively small area.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/technology/chinas-army-is-seen-as-tied...
Tue, 2013-02-19 00:45
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radiorahim
This is just good old-fashionied "spy vs. spy". The U.S., China, Russia, Israel etc. are all doing it to some degree or another.
And it's all made much easier by the monoculture of Microsoft Windows boxes in corporate and government institutions around the world.
The Defense Department and the State Department were particular targets, the cable said, describing how the group’s intruders send e-mails, called “spearphishing” attacks, that placed malware on target computers once the recipient clicked on them. From there, they were inside the systems.
Infecting a machine by someone clicking on an e-mail file attachment is something that's easiest to do on a Windows box...it's much harder to do on a GNU/Linux box.
Tue, 2013-02-19 00:55
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It also may well be sour grapes on the part of the NY Times that got hacked into by supposedly Chinese hackers.
Tue, 2013-02-19 05:32
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This is just good old-fashionied "spy vs. spy". The U.S., China, Russia, Israel etc. are all doing it to some degree or another.
And it's all made much easier by the monoculture of Microsoft Windows boxes in corporate and government institutions around the world.
A growing body of digital forensic evidence — confirmed by American intelligence officials who say they have tapped into the activity of the army unit for years —
Even the article has the US admitting to spying electronically for years. We know that other countries are doing it given that the attacks on Iran's industry are not likely to have been the work of Chinese spies.
Tue, 2013-02-19 14:05
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Or the worm that took out Iran's computers in their nuclear labs
Tue, 2013-02-19 20:31
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radiorahim
Stuxnet first attacked Windows computers and then the Siemen's industrial control software that ran on them.
There's a reason why 469 of the world's top 500 super computers run Linux and only 3 run on Windows.
Thu, 2018-12-20 12:58
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Hacked European Cables Reveal a World of Anxiety, About Trump, Russia and Iran
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/us/politics/european-diplomats-cables...
"Hackers infiltrated the European Union's diplomatic communications network for years downloading thousands of cables that reveal concerns about an unpredictable Trump administration and struggles to deal with Russia and China and the risk that Iran would revive its nuclear program..."
Hacks reveal hacks. (China blamed.)