trade secrets as well as a crackdown on political dissidents and journalists within the country, with Axiom playing a role.
In recent years, the Obama Administration has made a point of calling out China on its alleged cyber spying, which includes the theft of U.S. It is expected they will broach the burgeoning cyber conflict between the U.S.
The report comes as Secretary of State John Kerry and President Barack Obama prepare for successive visits to China over the next fortnight. “You see what is clearly a very professional group of people who are changing their tools, using sophisticated attacks, and being highly successful against a range of targets.” “This is a great example of the capabilities of a well-funded adversary,” said Morgan Marquis-Boire, a senior researcher at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, who worked at Google during the Aurora attack. The Axiom hacking group is believed to have ties to the Chinese government and be the most sophisticated cyber-espionage operation emanating from China, the coalition, which includes tech giants Microsoft and Cisco, said in a report.
CHINESE ESPIONAGE GROUP DEPLOYS COMPATIBLE WITH SOFTWARE
A coalition of cyber security companies said Tuesday that a Chinese cyber-espionage syndicate is responsible for planting malicious software (malware) on computers owned by Western government agencies, private companies and human rights groups over the past six years, including the high-profile 2010 Aurora attack on Google.
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