China fingered in cyber attacks on U.S. government

A report released by The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission noted that China is expanding cyber espionage operations in the United States in order to target private companies.

Titled "Capability of the People's Republic of China to Conduct Cyber Warfare and Computer Network Exploitation," the report stated that "Technical assessments of operational tradecraft observed in intrusions attributed to China are the result of extensive forensic analysis and discussions with information security professionals who follow these issues closely."

One attack, that was believed to be China-based, was detailed in the report: Two groups of hackers worked in tandem on a sophisticated operation to steal data from an unspecified "large" U.S. business and several other companies. One group worked to crack the security systems while another moved specific files--without needing to open them first--onto severs that have higher throughput for downloading.

For more on this story:
- the entire report can be downloaded from here (.pdf)
- check out this article at InformationWeek

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