Chinese Cyberwarfare capabilities - Enter the cyber dragon....

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-cyber/chinese-hackers-targeted-u-s-firms-government-after-trade-mission-researchers-idUSKBN1L11D2
 
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/17/internal-meeting-reveals-how-google-bosses-misled-staff-on-their-china-censorship-plan-here-are-the-questions-they-must-answer/
 
https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/08/19/182219/china-aims-to-narrow-cyberwarfare-gap-with-us

On a tangent: https://freebeacon.com/national-security/lawmakers-raise-concerns-dod-grants-colleges-hosting-confucius-institutes/
 
https://games.slashdot.org/story/18/08/31/1955207/china-plans-to-restrict-new-games-coming-into-the-country-and-limit-the-time-kids-spend-online

Hearts and minds, the old fashioned (Communist Party) way.
 
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/09/12/1930240/before-it-was-hacked-equifax-had-a-different-fear-chinese-spying
 
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/09/14/2039226/google-built-a-prototype-of-a-censored-search-engine-for-china-that-links-users-searches-to-their-personal-phone-numbers-the-intercept
 
https://nypost.com/2018/09/17/china-is-inventing-a-whole-new-way-to-oppress-a-people/
https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/big-brother-chinas-chilling-dictatorship-moves-to-introduce-scorecards-to-control-everyone/news-story/6c821cbf15378ab0d3eeb3ec3dc98abf

https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-has-ordered-key-chinese-state-media-firms-to-register-as-foreign-agents-1537296756
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI

Basically they want to replicate the joys of that Black Mirror episode "Nosedive".
 
Indeed.

In other developments:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/09/21/014245/china-blocks-twitch

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/20/eric-schmidt-ex-google-ceo-predicts-internet-split-china.html
 
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/china-shuts-thousands-of-websites-in-clean-up-campaign-xinhua-10747570
 
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/09/26/2044256/ex-google-employee-warns-of-disturbing-china-plans
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45653035
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-warns-hacking-spree-group-linked-china-003355487.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/04/chinese-spy-chips-are-said-to-be-found-in-hardware-used-by-apple-amazon-apple-denies-the-bloomberg-businessweek-report.html
 
Grey Havoc said:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-warns-hacking-spree-group-linked-china-003355487.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/04/chinese-spy-chips-are-said-to-be-found-in-hardware-used-by-apple-amazon-apple-denies-the-bloomberg-businessweek-report.html
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Worth mentioning that Apple continues to vehemently deny this story. Obviously, you'd expect they wouldn't want to confirm it if true, but as a publicly traded company they face penalties if they lie about financially significant facts. which this obviously is. So the very strong denials seem to be an accurate reflection of what Apple leadership knows or believes.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/apple-attacks-bloomberg-spy-chip-story-in-letter-to-congress/

"Our internal investigations directly contradict every consequential assertion made in the article," Apple claims. "Apple has never found malicious chips, 'hardware manipulations,' or vulnerabilities purposely planted in any server."
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It looks like they were hoping that the scandal would be brushed under the carpet come the expected Democrat 'Blue wave' in November (though that is now looking dodgy). A major problem for them apart from the obvious fallout of such a disastrous security compromise is that a case could be made that Amazon/AWS, Apple, and Google (among others) have already lied under oath repeatedly about the security breaches in question, and not just to Congress. And that's not taking into account other potential criminal and civil liabilities. Therefore when the story first broke it might have seemed to be a good idea at the time to try and tough it out, admitting nothing until the problem could be made to 'go away'.

Their situation has certainly not been made any easier by a rather half-hearted (and IMHO highly hypocritical) denial by Homeland Security on Sunday which in effect put any and all blame on the companies involved. (That earlier denial by GCHQ by the way appears to have been an ill-advised pre-emptive panic response to try and protect that proposed £25 Billion Cyberwarfare initiative.) And the wheels seem to be still coming off:
Grey Havoc said:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/new-evidence-of-hacked-supermicro-hardware-found-in-u-s-telecom
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/10/10/0029240/google-to-launch-censored-search-in-china-despite-denials
 
The story as presented makes very little sense technically. I'm not sure this is real.
 
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-intelligence-officer-charged-economic-espionage-involving-theft-trade-secrets-leading

Chinese Intelligence Officer Charged with Economic Espionage Involving Theft of Trade Secrets from Leading U.S. Aviation Companies

A Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) operative, Yanjun Xu, aka Qu Hui, aka Zhang Hui, has been arrested and charged with conspiring and attempting to commit economic espionage and steal trade secrets from multiple U.S. aviation and aerospace companies. Xu was extradited to the United States yesterday.

The charges were announced today by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio Benjamin C. Glassman, Assistant Director Bill Priestap of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, and Special Agent in Charge Angela L. Byers of the FBI’s Cincinnati Division.

“This indictment alleges that a Chinese intelligence officer sought to steal trade secrets and other sensitive information from an American company that leads the way in aerospace,” said Assistant Attorney General Demers. “This case is not an isolated incident. It is part of an overall economic policy of developing China at American expense. We cannot tolerate a nation’s stealing our firepower and the fruits of our brainpower. We will not tolerate a nation that reaps what it does not sow.”

“Innovation in aviation has been a hallmark of life and industry in the United States since the Wright brothers first designed gliders in Dayton more than a century ago,” said U.S. Attorney Glassman. “U.S. aerospace companies invest decades of time and billions of dollars in research. This is the American way. In contrast, according to the indictment, a Chinese intelligence officer tried to acquire that same, hard-earned innovation through theft. This case shows that federal law enforcement authorities can not only detect and disrupt such espionage, but can also catch its perpetrators. The defendant will now face trial in federal court in Cincinnati.”
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This continued pernicious behavior should be met with global response from all major G20 nations, like full on tariffs and economic sanctions.
 
https://theintercept.com/2018/10/12/google-search-engine-china-censorship/
 
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-targets-control-internet-things-spying-business/
 
Steve Trimble via Twitter...
 

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/washington-asks-allies-to-drop-huawei-1542924205
https://www.cnet.com/news/us-asks-foreign-allies-to-avoid-huawei/
https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/11/23/144243/us-asks-foreign-allies-to-avoid-huawei
 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-vows-severe-consequences-if-huawei-official-is-not-released-1544289791
 
Nothing new from the Chinese government, like most they shout the loudest when they are in the wrong. All nations do the same to an extent.
 
https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/12/14/166244/chinese-hackers-breach-us-navy-contractors
 
Grey Havoc said:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/12/14/166244/chinese-hackers-breach-us-navy-contractors
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"ne major breach of a Navy contractor, reported in June, involved the theft of secret plans to build a supersonic anti-ship missile planned for use by American submarines, according to officials."

Sounds like some people need to be made examples of. This is criminal incompetence.
 
Via Slashdot: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612556/the-6-reasons-why-huawei-gives-the-us-and-its-allies-security-nightmares/
 
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-security/poland-arrests-huawei-employee-polish-man-on-spying-allegations-idUSKCN1P50RN
 
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612638/when-chinese-hackers-declared-war-on-the-rest-of-us/
 
Im sure the examples noted above are an interesting insight into this field and in reality it goes both ways, with the west constantly 'attacking' those states and companies it sees as a 'threat' ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare_in_the_United_States
 
TsrJoe said:
Im sure the examples noted above are an interesting insight into this field and in reality it goes both ways, with the west constantly 'attacking' those states and companies it sees as a 'threat' ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare_in_the_United_States
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That is absolutely not true. The US intelligence agencies have exercised great restraint with any China directed hacking. They do it in order to assess foreign capabilities. They dont do it to steal technology, they dont do it cause political unrest, they dont do it for social engineering. All these bring attention which would be counter to their primary directive, which is defense of the United States of America.
 
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/news/the-huawei-squeeze-is-tightening-but-does-the-chinese-champion-really-pose-a-risk-as-has-been-claimed/ar-BBSpNor?li=AA54rU&ocid=DELLDHP
 
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-envoy-warning-huawei-ban-1.4982601
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-china-threatens-reprisals-if-canada-bans-huawei-from-its-5g-networks/
 
Grey Havoc said:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-envoy-warning-huawei-ban-1.4982601
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-china-threatens-reprisals-if-canada-bans-huawei-from-its-5g-networks/
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That's rich. "If you don't let us spy on you we'll get mad."
 
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/03/08/1847224/us-tech-firms-fear-china-could-be-spying-on-them-using-power-cords-report-says
 
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/china-spying-the-internet-s-underwater-cables-are-next

https://slashdot.org/story/19/04/10/214233/microsoft-worked-with-chinese-military-university-on-ai
 
www.reuters.com

Huawei is a risk so Britain must change course on 5G, ex-MI6 spymaster says

China's Huawei poses such a grave security risk to the United Kingdom that the government must not allow it to have even a limited role in building 5G networks, a former head of Britain's MI6 foreign spy service said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com

www.reuters.com

Dutch spy agency investigating alleged Huawei 'backdoor': Volkskrant

Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei has a hidden "backdoor" on the network of a major Dutch telecoms firm, making it possible to access customer data, newspaper De Volkskrant said on Thursday, citing unidentified intelligence sources.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
 
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