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Arthur T Knackerbracket and Phoenix666 writes:

CNet reports:

Seven US companies have been attacked by government-associated Chinese hackers in the three weeks since the US and China announced a pact that banned government spying on companies, a US security firm said Monday.

The hacks by "actors we have affiliated with the Chinese government" targeted five technology companies and two pharmaceutical companies, US security company CrowdStrike said in a blog post. The first of these occurred the day after the two countries struck a landmark pact in which they agreed not to spy on one another to steal business secrets. They "are continuing to this day", the company said.

Computer world reports:

Facebook will now warn people if it has a strong suspicion an account is being targeted by a nation-state.

The social networking service already takes steps to secure accounts that may have been compromised but has decided to directly alert users of the type of attack that's under way, wrote Alex Stamos, Facebook's chief security officer.

Since state-sponsored attacks can be more sophisticated "having an account compromised in this manner may indicate that your computer or mobile device has been infected with malware," he wrote.

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