U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel meets with Chinese Gen. Fan Changlong, vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission, in Beijing, April 8, 2014. Earlier, Hagel and Fan met to discuss military-to-military relations and other issues of mutual importance. DOD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
China Expands Cyber Spying -- Zachary Keck, The Diplomat
Mandiant’s latest report concludes Chinese cyber espionage has expanded despite embarrassing public exposures.
A new industry report says that the Chinese government has expanded the scope of its cyber espionage despite the greater public scrutiny these operations received in 2013.
The new report was published by Mandiant, now part of FireEye, the same company that in February 2013 published the much discussed APT1 report directly linking a unit of the People’s Liberation Army to a massive cyber espionage campaign against foreign businesses. APT1 was the hacking unit the report profiled.
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My Comment: Learning that the Chinese are expanding their cyber operations does not surprise me. Edward Snowden's very public release of how extensive NSA operations are has probably shook every country in the world .... the Chinese included. I have always commented that there was going to be blow-back from these revelations .... and we are now seeing it in the Chinese.
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