In a first, Chinese company publishes purported evidence of CIA hacks – By Kevin Collier (Fortune) / March 4 2020
A Chinese cybersecurity company has published what it said is evidence the CIA has been hacking Chinese targets for over a decade.
The report by Qihoo 360, one of China’s premiere cybersecurity firms, said that some of the tools used to hack Chinese government, science, and industry targets since 2008 are the same ones that WikiLeaks revealed in 2017 as being developed by the CIA. That detail, according to Qihoo, along with the fact that a former CIA officer is on trial in New York City for the leak, ties the CIA to the hacks in China.
The CIA declined to comment.
The mere existence of the report is a remarkable departure from what’s typical from China, which often denies U.S. accusations of its hacking activity but doesn’t provide public evidence of the U.S.’s own activity.
The report comes three weeks after the U.S. government accused the Chinese military of hacking credit-monitoring firm Equifax in 2017, exposing the personal data of 148 million Americans.
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