China's armed forces not involved in cyber attacks
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February 21, 2013, Thursday
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CHINA'S armed forces have never backed any hacking activities, a military spokesman said yesterday as he denounced a US cyber security report.
China bans activities that disrupt cyber security and the Chinese government always cracks down on cyber crimes, defense ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said.
On Monday, US cyber security firm Mandiant released a report alleging that a secret military unit in Shanghai was behind years of cyber attacks against US companies.
Geng said Mandiant's report had concluded the attacks came from China simply because they were linked to IP addresses based in China. But he said it was common knowledge that hacking attacks involved the theft of IP addresses. This was something that "happens almost every day."
Cyber attacks were transnational, anonymous and deceptive with their source often difficult to identify, Geng said.
China was a major victim of cyber attacks, he said, with military end users frequently coming under attack from abroad. Source IP addresses suggested the majority came from the US.
"But we do not point fingers at the United States based on the above-mentioned findings," Geng said.
Geng said China would like to resolve issues through joint law enforcement and consultations with other countries.
The Ministry of Public Security had assisted more than 50 countries and regions in investigating some 1,100 cases of cyber crime since 2004, and China had established bilateral law enforcement cooperation with more than 30 nations and regions, including the US, Britain, Germany and Russia.
Lodging one-sided media accusations will not help solve problems, but only jeopardize existing cooperation, he said.
Jin Canrong, an American studies expert at Renmin University of China, said the motive behind the hacking claims was to seek an upper hand in Sino-US relations.
With the US losing its traditional superiority, Jin said, it had fewer cards to play with, but accusing China of cyber attacks had become a new one.
The US military feared budget cuts and were whipping up fear about new threats such as cyber attacks from China, particularly when traditional security threats looked less daunting, Jin said.
He also said that the US government was under pressure from the business world with many US companies, keenly aware of the competition from China, concerned about losing their core technologies and assuming, unduly, that China was stealing from them.
China bans activities that disrupt cyber security and the Chinese government always cracks down on cyber crimes, defense ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said.
On Monday, US cyber security firm Mandiant released a report alleging that a secret military unit in Shanghai was behind years of cyber attacks against US companies.
Geng said Mandiant's report had concluded the attacks came from China simply because they were linked to IP addresses based in China. But he said it was common knowledge that hacking attacks involved the theft of IP addresses. This was something that "happens almost every day."
Cyber attacks were transnational, anonymous and deceptive with their source often difficult to identify, Geng said.
China was a major victim of cyber attacks, he said, with military end users frequently coming under attack from abroad. Source IP addresses suggested the majority came from the US.
"But we do not point fingers at the United States based on the above-mentioned findings," Geng said.
Geng said China would like to resolve issues through joint law enforcement and consultations with other countries.
The Ministry of Public Security had assisted more than 50 countries and regions in investigating some 1,100 cases of cyber crime since 2004, and China had established bilateral law enforcement cooperation with more than 30 nations and regions, including the US, Britain, Germany and Russia.
Lodging one-sided media accusations will not help solve problems, but only jeopardize existing cooperation, he said.
Jin Canrong, an American studies expert at Renmin University of China, said the motive behind the hacking claims was to seek an upper hand in Sino-US relations.
With the US losing its traditional superiority, Jin said, it had fewer cards to play with, but accusing China of cyber attacks had become a new one.
The US military feared budget cuts and were whipping up fear about new threats such as cyber attacks from China, particularly when traditional security threats looked less daunting, Jin said.
He also said that the US government was under pressure from the business world with many US companies, keenly aware of the competition from China, concerned about losing their core technologies and assuming, unduly, that China was stealing from them.
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