China

...nevertheless, companies need to do a better job of protecting IP, says Adam Segal.

The National Security Agency claims a dozen groups connected to China's People's Liberation Army and six nonmilitary groups connected to universities are largely behind cyber spying campaigns.

China and Russia were called out in a report as the world's most prolific perpetrators of economic espionage against the U.S.

Hackers over the summer targeted at least 29 companies in the chemical sector during an attack campaign aimed at stealing intellectual property.

China is denying a U.S. congressional committee's claim that hackers interfered with two government satellites.

A Chinese military documentary appears to offer a rare glimpse of an actual state-sponsored hacking tool being used to attack a U.S. website affiliated with the dissident Falun Gong religious movement.

While McAfee's recently released "Shady RAT" report concentrated on the victims of a mass cyberespionage ring, another researcher has decided to focus his attention on the adversaries behind such attacks. In a video recorded last week at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Joe Stewart of Dell SecureWorks explains how he was able to trace 60 families of custom malware thanks to error messages yielded by a "connection bouncer" tool used by the hackers to hide their tracks, but which inadvertently pointed back to about a dozen command-and-control centers hosted by ISPs in China. Two of the malware families are known to have been used in the RSA SecurID breach. "It gives you a better line on attribution," Stewart told SCMagazineUS.com.

For at least 18 minutes on April 8, 15 percent of the globe's internet traffic was rerouted through China, according to a post Wednesday on the McAfee blog. This included transmissions from U.S. military and government networks, as well as from commercial players, all of which could have been intercepted, logged and altered. There is yet no clear answer as to how this occurred or whether it was deliberate, but certainly was "one of the biggest routing hijacks we have ever seen," said McAfee. - GM

Authorities in China said over the weekend that they will punish those involved in the attacks on Google, if evidence is presented that the attacks originated in the Asian nation.