Craig Timberg, reporting for The Washington Post, on what is of little surprise to anyone:
Analyses of hundreds of documented data breaches found that hackers affiliated with the Chinese government were by far the most energetic and successful cyberspies in the world last year, according to a report to be issued Tuesday by government and industry investigators.
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Of 120 incidents of government cyber-espionage detailed in the report, 96 percent came from China; the source of the other 4 percent was unknown, it said.
As to those who may question the researcher’s methodology, Timberg explains:
For the cyber-espionage cases, Verizon officials said they named a country only when they could definitively trace the malicious code or tactics of the attack to its origin. Having the intrusion emanate from an Internet address in China, for example, was not sufficient for an attack to be labeled as Chinese, officials said.
Can’t wait for the form Chinese response tomorrow.
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