How China Hacks America

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   This is How China Hacks America: Inside the Mandiant Report

   Feb 19, 2013 5:20 PM EST

   Cybersecurity firm Mandiant released a massive and scathing report identifying a unit of the Chinese government that has hacked 115 U.S. companies. Here are the critical details.

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   A person walks past a building in Shanghai's northern suburb of Gaoqiao, alleged to be the home of a Chinese military-led hacking group according to a report by the Internet security firm Mandiant. (Peter Parks/AFP/Getty)
   

   
   

   The Chinese government just got caught with a smoking cyber gun.

   
   

   Cybersecurity consultant Mandiant released a much-anticipated report Tuesday morning, offering the most detailed look to date inside the Chinese People Liberation Army’s direct involvement in hacking into American government and corporate websites.

   
   

   The PLA Unit 61398 is identified by the report as the most prolific hacking group inside the Chinese government. Dedicated to infiltrating English-language sites, the unit recruits English-language proficient speakers and experts in computer security, but otherwise scrubs any mention of its organization from Chinese-language websites. Operating out of a 12-story, 130,663 square foot facility in the Pudong New Area sector of Shanghai, its building is able to contain as many as 2,000 personnel. Special high capacity fiber-optics were installed by China Telecom when the building was constructed in 2007 and the outfit utilizes over 1,000 servers.

   
   

   In this three-year investigation, Mandiant documented Unit 61398 hacking into 141 companies (including 115 in the U.S.) across 20 industries, and stealing many terabytes of compressed data in sustained attacks averaging 356 days. The longest persistent attack documented by Mandiant lasted 4 years and 10 months. The largest recorded theft was 6.5 terabytes from a single company over 10 months.

   
   

   The longest persistent attack documented by Mandiant lasted 4 years and 10 months.

   
   

   These attacks were just a small number of the total conducted by Unit 61398 and were conducted by individual hackers with online personas such as “Ugly Gorilla”, “DOTA” and “SuperHard.” The report offers tantalizing personal details of some of these hackers, such as what appears to be initial outreach by Ugly Gorilla to a retired Chinese general and DOTA’s love for the Harry Potter novels embedded in his security prompts.

   
   

   The number of attacks from PLA Unit 61398 escalated enormously since 2007 and the Mandiant report details the methods used to initially infiltrate organizations, such as spear-phishing emails and the embedding of malware that create a foothold into a company’s computer system.

   
   

   
   

   This video released by Mandiant shows “DOTA,” a supposed member of Unit 61398 conducting computer network espionage activities.

   
   

   Given the recent attacks launched on The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Twitter, Facebook, and most recently Apple, it’s a good time to be a company that specializes in Chinese cybersecurity threats. Mandiant, a 9-year-old Virginia-based firm, says it took in more than $100 million in revenue in 2012, up 76% from 2011, and has 30% of the Fortune 100 as clients.

   
   

   On Tuesday, the New York Times’ story on the report on Unit 61398 included a disclosure that the Times itself had used the company to investigate a sophisticated attack on the company that originated from China. The company concluded that the Times’ attack was perpetrated by a different group within China.

   
   

   While the PLA has long been implicated in cyber-attacks on the U.S. government and corporations, the Mandiant report is the first detailed public analysis of the unit and its methods. The extent to which Unit 61398 focuses its attacks on U.S. government entities is not clear in the report; phone calls and emails to Mandiant to clarify this point were not immediately returned.

   
   

   “State-sponsored cyber spies have enough resources and experience to make busting into most U.S. companies about as hard as pushing open a broken porch door,” said Matt Pottinger, CEO of Asia-focused consulting firm China Six LLC. “Americans don't live in a safe neighborhood anymore. In terms of our digital security, we’ve gone from living in Logan, Utah to Logar, Afghanistan in less than a decade." 

   
   

   Mandiant anticipates reprisals in return for publicly divulging the information. But the report’s value lies in the difficulty the Chinese government could have in issuing future pro-forma denials, such as the one it released last month:  “It is unprofessional and groundless to accuse the Chinese military of launching cyber-attacks without any conclusive evidence.”  Thanks to Mandiant, the evidence appears to be in.

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   This is How China Hacks America: Inside the Mandiant Report

   Just like in Feudal times it was easier to poison your opponents food and to kill them that way than to make a frontal attack and challenge them to a duel, China is undermining our economy and hoping not to have to engage us in some kind of all out war instead. So, by destroying our economy from within their hope is to conquer the U.S. without having to fire a shot.

   Maybe it's time for the U.S. to launch and all out attack on their Cyber Structure at their banks and companies as well (if that isn't already in progress at this point secretly). 
   
   Also, it is a part of Asian philosophy I think this might be from "The Art of War" Here it is: "Push the sword in a little ways. If there is no resistance push it in further and further." This is just a part of doing business with the Chinese. If you don't resist them, they don't respect you and will eventually take you over completely! 
   
   Another point is just how indoctrinated people in the Chinese government and military actually are. It gives a whole new meaning to the word "Brainwashing". In order to be a part of something like this you would have been trained to Hate America since birth. Someone so brainwashed as this would have a hard time turning away from this path. So, it is unlikely China will be ashamed at any military level of what they have done. Instead they will be proud and only increase what they are doing. The way to stop this is to make life so difficult for the average member of the Chinese government financially that they force the military to stop this. That is the only way I can presently see to stop this. (You cannot really completely stop this you might only be able to slow it down). But, not slowing it down will make a real physical war with China inevitable. So, only by increasing U.S. cyber attacks that make this unprofitable for the Chinese will slow this down.