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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.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2020, @05:20AM (6 children)
Those poor Chinese. The evil Americans are spying on them and trying to infiltrate Chinese industry.
Evil, nasty Americans!
The decent [newsweek.com], hardworking [washingtontimes.com] Chinese [thedailybeast.com] would [businessinsider.com] never [wikipedia.org] do anything [wikipedia.org] like [warontherocks.com] that [thedailybeast.com]!
Give me a fucking break. They spy on/hack us, we spy on/hack them. So what?
This is news? I guess the "news" is that the Chinese got wise to one or more of the CIA's operations. I just hope any human assets got out before they could be arrested, disappeared, tortured and killed.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2020, @06:43AM (1 child)
It's just slightly sad in a world wearying kind of way. Even the good guys are bastards like us. Shit all the way up, shit all the wayy down.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2020, @07:08AM
AC you replied to here.
Who are these "good guys" you are referring to?
And who's this "us"? Speak for yourself, not me. I'm not part of whatever "us" you're referring to.
I'm honest. Probably too honest. Honest to my own detriment on occasion.
And I treat others with kindness and respect.
If you don't, then you're a bastard and piece of shit -- but don't include me in that assessment.
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2020, @06:47AM (3 children)
It's like in the final Rocky movie if you found out in the last scene he was shooting anabolic steroids and diuretics all along since age 16.
(Score: 4, Touché) by ewk on Thursday March 05 2020, @07:49AM (2 children)
Nah... that would be the Lance Armstrong movie :-)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2020, @03:41PM
But wait... I thought it was our exceptionalism(tm), our values(tm) and superior protestant work ethic(tm)?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Thursday March 05 2020, @05:14PM
He's just the only high profile USA bicyclist who got caught. One might say the only high profile USA bicyclist as well, unless you get into the trick sports. Which is a whole different thing.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"