The Chinese government conducts espionage on such a large scale that Western governments are having a hard time curbing Beijing's espionage efforts, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Just last month, the FBI said hackers linked to the Chinese government had compromised 260,000 internet-connected devices in the United States and Europe, while federal officials said Democratic New York Gov. Cathy Hochul's former top aide is a Chinese operative, WSJ reports, and Congressional report finds that Chinese-made cargo cranes at U.S. ports contain technology that China can carefully control. It is said that he did. Western intelligence agencies have sounded the alarm about the possibility of Chinese espionage and urged citizens to be vigilant, but China's deep economic ties with the West make it difficult to uncover espionage.
China's network of state-sponsored hackers is believed to be vast, outnumbering FBI cyber personnel by a ratio of about 50 to 1, and by some estimates China employs as many as 600,000 personnel on cyber operations. It is possible that he is engaged in the work. In WSJ. (Related: China hawks slam Biden-Harris administration for ignoring growing evidence that Beijing is spying from diplomatic locations)
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According to the WSJ, China has been hacking U.S. energy and water infrastructure, which has some in Washington concerned, and if China attempts to take over Taiwan by force, the Chinese government will We are concerned that this could seriously disrupt these critical services. Also, amid a border dispute between the two countries in 2021, Chinese hackers were able to successfully install malicious software into India's power grid, and communications on Guam, the Pacific island where a major US military base is located. It is also possible that infrastructure was compromised.
Other recent high-profile acts of confirmed or suspected Chinese espionage include a major breach of British voter registration records, exposing the home addresses of up to 40 million people. could be used to access U.S. broadband provider networks and access wiretapping devices used in criminal activities. According to WSJ, the investigation is ongoing. China's economic espionage efforts have been fairly well-known and publicized for years, with some officials claiming that Chinese hackers are stealing large amounts of data used in developing various applications of artificial intelligence technology. I am concerned that this may be the case.
According to WSJ, the risk of espionage emanating from China has increased in recent years as China's economic growth has slowed, and this development has increased pressure on Chinese spies to steal information to advance the country's interests. and trying to steal trade secrets. Unlike the Soviet Union, China doesn't seem to care much about the capture of its spies, and the Chinese government rarely tries to exchange captured spies with Western countries.
Calder Walton, a national security expert at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, told the Journal that the U.S. and its allies are “in many ways coming to terms with the situation after the incident.” (Related: China expands 'increasingly brazen' influence operations in US and abroad, government report warns)
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According to the WSJ, some European officials have warned that China is using Chinese students and researchers as tools for espionage, as Western officials begin to pay closer attention. , warns that these individuals can now evade suspicion more effectively. Five Chinese students studying at the University of Michigan were charged in early October in connection with a 2023 incident that was allegedly caught on camera in close proximity to a Michigan National Guard base hosting military exercises involving Taiwan's military. Ta.
Since 2022, Chinese agents have used LinkedIn to contact around 20,000 people in the UK, asking them to provide sensitive material, according to the Journal.
The public-private decentralized design of China's spy apparatus is another problem for Western countries countering Chinese spies, according to the WSJ. Additionally, China purged officials who had been spying on behalf of the United States about a decade ago, reducing U.S. visibility into what was going on in China.
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