Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and UK Accuse China of APT10 Hacking Spree (zdnet.com)

A day after the US Department of Justice charged two Chinese nationals for being members of a state-sponsored hacking group and accused the Chinese government of orchestrating a string of hacks around the world, five other governments have stepped in with similar accusations. From a report: Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, and the UK have published official statements today formally blaming China of hacking their government agencies and local companies. All statements are in regards to the supposed involvement of the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) in supporting the activity of a hacking group known as APT10. In a DOJ indictment yesterday, the US says this group hacked companies in 12 countries, and later breached cloud service providers, wormed through their infrastructure, and hacked even more companies. US officials said the primary purpose of these hacks was to steal trade secrets and intellectual property that the Chinese government later passed to local Chinese companies, helping create an unfair advantage for local firms on the global market.

Comments

If these people

[Anonymous Coward]

spent half the time and energy securing their resources as they do whining about people stealing them we would not have an issue.

Re:If these people

[jpaine619]

You're an idiot. I don't say that lightly. Nothing is impervious to attack. With the internet it's even less so.

You build a secure system.. You invest time into it.. Now your adversary has all of the time in the world to attempt to breach it. In fact, you may have thousands of adversaries that you don't even know about.

Even if you build a system to accept connections from only a single IP address, if the machine at that particular IP address is breached (or any of the addresses allowed to connect to it) then you have a problem.. Once anything is connected to the public internet it is vulnerable. At best you can only secure it against known attacks.

Re:We should find and EXECUTE any known persons

[jpaine619]

I kinda secretly wish all governments would spiral into failure and the world economy would just cease to be a thing.

Are you one of those idiots who thinks the world would be better with anarchy? Or is it just capitalism? Do you have any idea just how shitty life was before capitalism? It wasn't good man... It wasn't like the movies.. Do you understand that prior to the invention of antibiotics that any infection was potentially life threatening? A broken bone could KILL you.. It didn't always, but it sure as fuck killed a lot of people.. Marrow infections, etc...

For fuck's sake, the average lifespan globally in 1950, was 50 years old. (global average - the industrialized nations had much higher lifespans of course). But that was only 68 years ago. Also, just as an aside, in Asia and the Middle East, in 1950, the average lifespan was 42.

Re:Chinese Hacking vs. American Hacking

[NewtonsLaw]

Sorry but this outrage on the part of Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and the UK is so hypocritical.

Hacking, spying and even assassination is the currency of international politics and every single one of these countries has undoubtedly broken the law in the process.

Here in New Zealand, the courts have ruled on numerous occasions that NZ's spy agencies have acted "unlawfully" by spying on its citizens and the police have acted "unlawfully" by holding foreign nationals at gunpoint and taking their property (Dotcom).

I have absolutely no doubt that most of these Western nations are doing exactly the same as China... but, just as with the CIA's assassinations of foreign targets, the whole thing is kept hush-hush.

Hypocrites the lot of them!

Re:Time for the Rest of US to Get Serious

[rtb61]

I would be more cruel. You really think Canada, Australia and New Zealand have a foreign policy opinion of their own. The US/UK cabal squawks and the vassal states chime in. It looks so awful now, the US has dragged Australia's foreign policy reputation through the mud, stained and worthless, nothing but quisling foreign policy state. Just stop doing it, it sells nothing any more and just makes them, well, us just look worse and more pathetic. Continue to try to fuck with Australian trade with China and there will be repercussions.