Security News > 2020 > March > CIA Hackers Targeted China in Decade-Long Campaign: Chinese Security Firm

The Chinese company claims it's aware of attacks launched by the CIA between September 2008 and June 2019.

"In the CIA's attack against Chinese aviation organizations and scientific research institutions, we found that attackers mainly targeted system developers in these sectors to carry out the campaigns," Qihoo said in an English-language blog post.

The company added, "We speculate that in the past eleven years of infiltration attacks, CIA may have already grasped the most classified business information of China, even of many other countries in the world. It does not even rule out the possibility that now CIA is able to track down the real-time global flight status, passenger information, trade freight and other related information. If the guess is true, what unexpected things will CIA do if it has such confidential and important information? Get important figures' travel itinerary, and then pose political threats, or military suppression?".

The threat actor linked by Qihoo to the CIA - the company tracks it as APT-C-39 - reportedly used many of the tools contained in the Vault 7 leaks in its attacks, even before they were made public.

The company said some of the "Attack weapons" used by APT-C-39 are associated with the U.S. National Security Agency, which reportedly assisted the CIA in developing cyber weapons.

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