“The Chinese army appears to be conducting cyberhacking and espionage against large US corporations, according to an extensive report from computer security firm Mandiant.
The report even identifies the unit and the building behind the cyberwar.
Beijing has long been suspected of espionage costing global corporations billions of dollars—such as when a hacking incident at Lockheed Martin was followed by the appearance of suspiciously familiar Chinese jets—though it was hard to find evidence.
Indeed, it makes sense that China, in its breakneck push to become a world power, would use all available technology to catch the west.
Following Mandiant’s 75-page report, however, the cyberwar is all but official.
have distilled the alarming report and uploaded the full Scribed copy below for your perusal.
According to Mandiant, what hacking program coordinators do is seek students with outstanding English skills who are hand picked for Advanced Persistent Threat training (APT). The APT teams are broken down into groups and divided among for locations in and around Shanghai, universities, commercial corridors, and largely innocuous places. Wherever they go, each team is assigned a Military Unit Cover Designator (MUCD). The MUCD is a five digit number by which the unit, its people, its location, and its work is referred to. The designation makes the teams more difficult to isolate and track.
MUCDs report all the way up to the Chinese equivalent to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to Mandiant. That implies this practice is part of China’s overt military policy against foreign nations…”
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