// archives

espionage

This tag is associated with 3 posts

Ramping Down Chinese Commercial Cyber Espionage

By ⋅ December 10, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment

Despite criticism from skeptics, China is trying to honor its “no commercial hacking for profit” commitments as first promised in an accord with the United States, and later reaffirmed at the November 2015 G20 summit.  Recent news reports cited that in a show of good faith, China had arrested hackers per the U.S. government’s request […]

FireEye claims China hacked PCs of G20 leaders

By ⋅ December 10, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

Chinese hackers eavesdropped on the computers of five European foreign ministries before last September’s G20 Summit, which was dominated by the Syrian crisis, according to research by computer security firm FireEye. The hackers infiltrated the ministries’ computer networks by sending emails to staff containing tainted files with titles such as “US_military_options_in_Syria,” said FireEye, which sells […]

‘Aurora’ Cyber Attackers Were Really Running Counter-Intelligence

By ⋅ April 23, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

Dave Aucsmith, Microsoft’s Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments, who spoke last week at a government IT conference Microsoft, outlined a starkly different version of the attacks than the assessment that Google offered in the bombshell revelation it made in January 2010. Google had said that the attackers were trying to infiltrate the Gmail accounts of Chinese […]

—