Yesterday and today, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, in reply to questions about charges that China hacked Microsoft’s Exchange servers, provided detailed evidence of how the U.S. has, over a period of years, been responsible for major cyber attacks on Chinese government agencies and on crucial sectors of the economy—not to mention its own allies. The U.S., he said, “is the largest source of cyber attacks targeting China,” and its attacks are political and without foundation. Yesterday, Zhao reported that the Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 had identified the work of the CIA-run APT-C39 cyber attack organization that carried out cyber infiltration and attacks on such crucial sectors as aerospace, the oil industry, science and research institutions and large internet companies for 11 years. “The above attacks have seriously undermined China’s national security and the security of China’s economy, critical infrastructure and citizens’ personal information,” Zhao said.
He also cited information from the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team (CNCERT), a Chinese non-profit cybersecurity center, which is the key coordination team for China’s cybersecurity emergency response. It has reported that about 52,000 malicious program command and control servers located outside China took control of about 5.31 million computer hosts in China in 2020. Zhao added that the U.S. and two of its NATO allies are the top three nations in terms of the number of computers they control in China.
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