China has dismissed all US accusations of industrial
cyber-espionage against five of its military officials and published
proof that Washington is actually stealing data from China. Beijing also
summoned the US ambassador for an explanation.
Beijing reacted to Washington’s recent round of industrial
espionage accusations by publishing its
latest data on US cyber-attacks against China.
China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical
Team Coordination Center of China (NCNERTTCC) reported that
during just two months, from March 19 to May 18, the US directly
controlled 1.18 million host computers in China using 2,077
Trojan horse networks or botnet servers.
According to the NCNERTTCC, over the last two months 135 host
computers stationed in the US conducted 14,000 phishing
operations against Chinese websites using for the attacks 563
phishing pages. The other hacking activities through the same
period of time included 57,000 backdoor attacks, performed from
2,016 IP addresses in the US through backdoors implanted on 1,754
Chinese websites.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry summoned the American ambassador to
China for an explanation, urging him to drop all charges against
China’s military officers. The meeting between Chinese Assistant
Foreign Minister Zheng Zeguang and US Ambassador Max Baucus took
place on Monday night, reported Xinhua.
Depending on further developments, China “will take further
action on the so-called charges by the United States,” Zheng
told Baucus.
“The Chinese government and military and its associated
personnel have never conducted or participated in the theft of
trade secrets over the internet,” Zheng reportedly told
Baucus as quoted by Xinhua.
America’s attitude to internet security is “overbearing and
hypocritical,” Zheng told Baucus, urging the US to finally
give a clear explanation on multiple reports that America’s
National Security Agency is spying after Chinese government,
businesses, universities and individuals.
On the other side of the Pacific, China's Ambassador to the US
Cui Tiankai "made solemn representations" to the US
State Department, China News Service reported on Tuesday.
“The accusations that the United States have made against
these Chinese officials are purely fictitious and extremely
absurd," Chinese ambassador to the US is quoted as saying.
Geng Yansheng, spokesman for China’s Ministry of National
Defense, accused Washington of hypocrisy and damaging bilateral
military ties.
“From 'WikiLeaks' to the 'Snowden' affairs, the hypocrisy and
double standards of the US side on the issue of internet security
has been clear for a long time,” said the spokesman as cited
by the Wall Street Journal.
Beijing insists that while the US accused China of industrial
cyber-spying on multiple occasions, America itself is waging
unprecedented cyber warfare against China, infiltrating all kinds
of the country’s networks - government and business alike - also
targeting both civilians and officials through mobile phones.
After the revelations of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden the
US has been criticized by most of the world powers, as it turned
out that America is spying after literally every state and every
person found necessary.
For example back in 2012 Washington accused Chinese telecom giants, including the
world’s second-largest global supplier of telecommunications
equipment, Huawei, of posing a threat to America’s national
security through ‘tapping’ their routers, switches and other
telecoms equipment.
Two years later it turned out that the US was not only spying on Huawei, but America’s NSA has been
actually embedding surveillance tools within computer
hardware exported from the US.
On Monday, the US personalized accusations of industrial
cyber-espionage against China, charging five military officials
with hacking attacks against American companies.
Beijing dismissed all the accusations as groundless and based on
fabricated facts, blaming Washington of imperiling China-US
“cooperation and mutual trust” in a released statement.
“China is steadfast in upholding cyber-security,” the
statement maintains. “The Chinese government, the Chinese
military and their relevant personnel have never engaged or
participated in cyber-theft of trade secrets. The US accusation
against Chinese personnel is purely ungrounded and absurd,”
the document said.
US attorney General Eric Holder leveled charges against China of
stealing confidential data and business secrets in order to give
Chinese companies competitive advantage over American
corporations in the nuclear and solar technology sectors.
According to the Justice Department, the grand jury’s indictment
must become a “wake-up call” for the American nation to realize
the scale of cyber intrusions.
The companies that allegedly suffered from espionage are such
industrial giants as Alcoa World Alumina, Allegheny Technologies,
SolarWorld, US Steel Corporation, the United Steelworkers Union
and Westinghouse Electric.
Source:http://www.rt.com
Source:http://www.rt.com
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