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These days state-sponsored has become a euphemism for Chinese.
by yumraj 7y ago
These days state-sponsored has become a euphemism for Chinese.
- coolspot 7y agoNah. For example Sony was hacked by North Korea. CIA was repeatedly hacked by Russia (Vault 7, director emails). And yes, every high-tech US corporation is sucked dry of secrets by China (Micron, Intel, Supermicro, Waymo, Boeing, etc.)
- yumraj 7y agoChina wins by a huge margin.
- GordonS 7y agoIt depends on who the boogeyman de jour is. It was North Korea for a while, with every major hack blamed on them, then it was Russia, and now it's China - lo and behold, they get the blame for every major hack. Now, I'm not saying it wasn't China - what I'm saying is that Western governments make it like "the body who cried wolf".
- samsonradu 7y agoDon't forget about Iran.
- sgustard 7y agoAs a data point, China's "hacker army" has 50k-100k people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cyberwarfare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cyberwarfare
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoThe supporting link for that figure describes China's hackers army as a myth (in the header), and as a loose coalition of civilians in the body: >"That revelation, along with a separate story in the Financial Times that a freelancer wrote the Aurora code, is focusing attention on China’s loose web of cowboy hackers. And SharpWinner — the leader of a coalition including anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 civilian members …" // The rest of the Wikipedia page, amongst other things, describes a structured make up (military, PLA, civilian). Assuming the numbers were true, how does that compare to USA's, or other countries?