Report Warns of Chinese Hacking

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/report-warns-of-chinese-hacking-1445227440

By DANNY YADRON
The Wall Street Journal
Oct. 19, 2015

A U.S. cybersecurity company says it has evidence hackers linked to the 
Chinese government may have tried to violate a recent agreement between 
Washington and Beijing not to hack private firms in each other’s country 
for economic gain.

The firm, CrowdStrike Inc., plans to announce Monday that unnamed 
customers in the technology and pharmaceutical industries have faced 
attempted—though unsuccessful—intrusions from China-linked hackers. Two 
incidents took place the day before and the day after President Barack 
Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Sept. 25 they reached an 
“understanding” not to use cyberspies to commit economic espionage against 
each other, according to CrowdStrike.

The Chinese embassy in Washington didn’t immediately respond to a request 
for comment.

“We are aware of this report. We’ll decline comment on its specific 
conclusions,” said a senior Obama administration official. “We have and 
will continue to directly raise our concerns regarding cybersecurity with 
the Chinese.”

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