Aggressive cyber war carried by China against the United States
causing each year losses worth billions of dollars to American
companies, said FBI Director James Comey AFP reports.
According to federal police chief, the vast majority of American
companies have been targeted by this type of activities. “There are two
kinds of large companies in the United States. Those who know they have
been hacked by the Chinese and those who do not know they have been
pirated by the Chinese,” said Comey in “60 Minutes” of CBS.
Annual losses caused by cyber attacks launched from China are
“impossible to figure”, but the number is in the order “billions,”
according to FBI boss. Asked about countries that target the United
States, Comey said, “I do not want to give you a complete list. But I
can tell you that at the top of the list are Chinese.”
He quoted the example of the charges, in May, when five officers in
the Chinese army stolen, during 2006-2014, trade secrets from American
companies specialized in nuclear or solar energy and metallurgy.
Strong tension with Beijing
This case has caused severe tensions with Beijing. According to FBI
Director hackers target this information to Chinese industry profits,
which is exempted in this way to be “forced to invent”. But, he said,
they are easy to spot. “I’m going to think of drunken thieves. Break the
door, slam the vase and leave the TV under his arm,” he said. “I am
simply fruitful. It might say their strategy is” we are everywhere,
always. and they never manage to arrest us again ‘”, said the head of
the FBI.
In 2013, the California-based cybersecurity firm Mandiant said
Chinese had launched cyber-attacks on 141 organisations across 20
industries. Targets included government departments, private companies,
from the Pentagon to the New York Times. NGOs were also targeted.
Mandiant linked a number of attacks to a military-affiliated group based
in nondescript building on the outskirts of Shanghai.
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