FBI Warns Industry of Chinese Cyber Campaign

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 16, 2014 @05:45AM from the protect-ya-neck dept.

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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Re:It's time to start a trade war. by knightghost · 2014-10-16 06:34 · Score: 5, Insightful

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.