Posted on 09/05/2022 7:01:04 AM PDT by FarCenter
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But a report released Monday by its National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) accused the US National Security Agency (NSA) of carrying out "tens of thousands of malicious attacks on network targets in China in recent years".
It specifically accused the NSA's Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO) of infiltrating the Northwestern Polytechnical University in the city of Xi'an.
The university is funded by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and specialises in aeronautical and space research.
CVERC alleged that TAO infiltrated the university's networks and took "control of tens of thousands of network devices" including servers, routers and network switches.
Using dozens of cyber weapons and exploiting previously unknown flaws in the SunOS operating system, the unit gained access to "core technical data" including passwords and the operations of key network devices, the report said.
TAO has "stolen over 140 gigabytes of high-value data" in recent years and received assistance from groups in Europe and South Asia, CVERC said in the report, which was co-authored by the private Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360.
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Guess China didn’t pay The Big Guy enough.
Albequeque
Coming from China, that’s rich.
Whoops. You did.
To be fair I’m sure it’s actually happening, I hope it’s happening but who cares? It’s cyber war.
What goes around comes around.
Probably just data China stole from us.
China wouldn’t respect us if we didn’t. Hopefully we are also gaining access to their electric power stations and military.
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