Sebastien Le Belzic
China on Monday accused the United States of having carried out “tens of thousands” of cyberattacks against it, which made it possible to steal sensitive data, in particular from a research university. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said the operations put Beijing’s national security “seriously at risk”.
Beijing accuses the NSA, the American military intelligence agency, of having launched tens of thousands of cyberattacks against China and of having hacked in particular the servers of the North-West Polytechnic University, which specializes in space research, stealing large volumes of computer data. According to Beijing, the American agency would have benefited from the help of European and South Asian organizations.
“We ask the United States to cease these operations”
“This US-led operation seriously endangers our national security. China firmly opposes it. We call on the US to immediately stop these operations,” said Mao Ning, the Chinese ministry spokeswoman. Foreign Affairs.
Two million little computer soldiers
Until then, it was rather Beijing that was regularly singled out for cyberattacks carried out against the United States, but also against European Union countries, including France. It is estimated that there are two million of these little computer soldiers in the service of the Chinese government. Red hackers, some of whom work directly for the army and under the control of base 311, near Shanghai, the nerve center of Chinese cyber espionage.