FBI Warns Industry of Chinese Cyber Campaign

daten writes The FBI on Wednesday issued a private warning to industry that a group of highly skilled Chinese government hackers was in the midst of a long-running campaign to steal valuable data from U.S. companies and government agencies. "These state-sponsored hackers are exceedingly stealthy and agile by comparison with the People's Liberation Army Unit 61398 ... whose activity was publicly disclosed and attributed by security researchers in February 2013," said the FBI in its alert, which referred to a Chinese military hacker unit exposed in a widely publicized report by the security firm Mandiant.

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It's time to start a trade war.

[Isca]

Because at this point, they've already gone to war with us. It would be devastating for the US economy in the short term but long term I'm not so sure.

Free trade doesn't work if both sides are not playing the same game.

Re:It's time to start a trade war.

[sdguero]

Trade Wars lead to real wars.

Re:It's time to start a trade war.

[TheP4st]

Free trade doesn't work if both sides are not playing the same game.

Right, the US would never consider spying on Chinese companies and government branches. /sarcasm
I like to believe that you are just trolling, but based on the inane world view frequently voiced by 'muricans online it is very hard to tell.

Re:It's time to start a trade war.

[Charliemopps]

We're not playing the same game?
Just how deep in the sand do you have your head buried?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

What China is doing is a drop in the bucket compared to what the USA is doing.

Re:It's time to start a trade war.

[knightghost]

These aren't rogue groups. They operate with the full support of the Chinese government.

I agree with hacking back but the only value you'd gain is if you handed the data over to corporations, and that's a big bad can of worms to open.

No casualties? The median lifetime earnings of a USA worker is $1.5m. For ever $1.5m in economic damage, you've effectively killed one person.

Re: It's time to start a trade war.

[bill_mcgonigle]

no it's not a real war. Copying a Word document is completely unequal to dropping a bomb on a village or shooting somebody in the head.

Shame on you for equating the two - stop being a sociopath.

Irony

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, how dare they trespass on the FBI's domain like that!

That's ok since...

[GerardAtJob]

Since the US does not need any warrant to hack in a remote computer (out of US), why Chinese should not hack into US server without warrant or warning??

It's legal isn't it ?

China, home to government sponsored thieves?

[TiggertheMad]

This is news that nerds might be interested in. If you have no use for it, clearly you aren't a nerd. Go elsewhere for your news. I am tired of people bitching about stories that don't pertain to them. If you don't find them useful, then don't read them.

This is important news. If China is stepping up it's state sponsored spying and digital theft, I want to know about it. It might be useful background info to know so that when the president decides to park a cruse missile on a building in China, you know some of the history that lead to this decision.