Security News > 2022 > September > As Cybersecurity Week begins, Beijing claims US attacked Uni doing military research

China has accused the United States of a savage cyber-attack on a university famed for conducting aerospace research and linked to China's military.

The National Computer Virus Emergency Response Centre made its accusation on September 5th, claiming that the Office of Tailored Access Operation at the USA's National Security Agency has unleashed over 10,000 attacks in China, some using zero-day exploits, and lifted 140GB of "High value data".

As the University long ago absorbed People's Liberation Army Military Engineering Institute, and is home to aerospace research, China suggests the US sought strategic info.

"The US's behavior poses a serious danger to China's national security and citizens' personal information security," she said.

The FBI rates China as the worst cyber-threat faced by the USA and claims to open an investigation into Beijing-driven attacks every twelve hours, adding to the 2,000 such incidents it was already probing as of February 2022.

In July 2022, the FBI joined with UK intelligence agency MI5 to assert that China conducts a "Coordinated campaign on a grand scale" to steal secrets from the USA and UK. There is doubtless some truth in China's claims that the USA uses information warfare to seek valuable information.

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