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posted by takyon on Thursday March 05 2020, @02:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the preemptive-payback dept.

CIA Hackers Targeted China in Decade-Long Campaign: Chinese Security Firm (archive):

A report published on Monday by Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360 claims that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conducted an 11-year-long cyberespionage operation aimed at China's critical industries.

Qihoo's research revolves around the Vault 7 files published in 2017 by WikiLeaks. The Vault 7 files include exploits and tools used by the CIA to target computers, routers, mobile devices, and IoT systems.

Other cybersecurity firms previously linked these tools and exploits to attacks launched by a threat group tracked as "Longhorn" and "The Lamberts" against entities in Europe, Asia and Africa. Qihoo said its own analysis revealed that many of the Vault 7 tools had been used to target Chinese organizations, even before the files were made public by WikiLeaks.

The targeted Chinese entities are said to include government agencies, scientific research institutions, internet companies, the petroleum sector, and aviation-related organizations, particularly in Beijing, Guangdong and Zhejiang. The Chinese company claims it's aware of attacks launched by the CIA between September 2008 and June 2019.


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 05 2020, @03:13AM (10 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday March 05 2020, @03:13AM (#966811) Homepage Journal

    Dudes, they're spies. The name is the job description. Them giving a foreign nation a pass and not spying on them would be news. This ain't.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by takyon on Thursday March 05 2020, @03:22AM (8 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday March 05 2020, @03:22AM (#966812) Journal

    So U.S. OPM [soylentnews.org] or other agencies getting hacked by China is news, but this isn't?

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    • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2020, @03:33AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2020, @03:33AM (#966819)

      The difference is that *they* hack and *we* remotely access (after inserting backdoors in the freakin hardware).

    • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday March 05 2020, @03:36AM (1 child)

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Thursday March 05 2020, @03:36AM (#966821) Homepage

      You can never trust a man who eats dogs, cats, bats, and three-squeek mouse. But I can get you some underground shit: Whole Racoon in the heart of New York City. Call Chang at 212-867-5309. We got some pretty good underground meats like whale and squirrel here too.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2020, @04:23AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2020, @04:23AM (#966845)

      Are you in the USA? If so, then yes.

      If you are in China, flip it around. (We didn't hack OPM and they didn't see us do it.)

      Everywhere else: none of this is news.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 05 2020, @01:23PM (3 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday March 05 2020, @01:23PM (#966934) Homepage Journal

      Not really. Everyone should have been expecting both.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2020, @08:47PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2020, @08:47PM (#967086)

        Everyone should expect everything, why bother with news at all?

        You get crazier by the day.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2020, @01:40AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2020, @01:40AM (#967203)

          Wow that's a mighty big leap from expecting spies on both sides to be spies - not sure who's crazier here.

        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 06 2020, @01:32PM

          Water is Wet isn't news. Neither is Spies Spied.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by legont on Thursday March 05 2020, @03:57AM

    by legont (4179) on Thursday March 05 2020, @03:57AM (#966838)

    The news would be China imposing sanction on the US and punishing say Vietnam for avoiding them.

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