Chinese Cyberwarfare

[Wisemarko]

Chinese Hackers Target Universities in Pursuit of Maritime Military Secrets
University of Hawaii, University of Washington and MIT are among schools hit by cyberattacks
Dustin VolzMarch 5, 2019 5:30 a.m. ET

Chinese hackers have targeted more than two dozen universities in the U.S. and around the globe as part of an elaborate scheme to steal research about maritime technology being developed for military use, according to cybersecurity experts and current and former U.S. officials.

The University of Hawaii, the University of Washington and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are among at least 27 universities in the U.S., Canada and Southeast Asia that Beijing has targeted, according to iDefense, a cybersecurity intelligence unit of Accenture Security.

 

[Kshatriya87]

Steal what you can't build is the mantra. US already caught a few chinese trying to sneak parts to china from US. Since then US has been keeping a strict eye on them.

Only way left for chinese now is hacking. This too can be avoided if the university computers with data are kept off the grid.

 

[su30mki2017]

Steal what you can't build is the mantra. US already caught a few chinese trying to sneak parts to china from US. Since then US has been keeping a strict eye on them.

Only way left for chinese now is hacking. This too can be avoided if the university computers with data are kept off the grid.

Its a government sanctioned and sponsored program to steal technologies from west active since late 1980's 863 program
and from late 1990's 973 program.

the regime use all its citizens for Clandestine HUMINT operation.PERIOD
its their patriotic duty to steal and come back with stolen technologies to peking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/863_Program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_973

@sayareakd @nimo_cn @lcafanboy