![]() efforts to "shame" China into curbing cyber attacks were undermined in May when NSA contractor Edward Snowden disclosed U.S. The Obama administration’s response to Chinese cyber attacks so far was to set up a diplomatic Cyber Working Group between the two countries in April. government’s release of a list of Internet Protocol addresses used by the Chinese cyber spies.Ĭurrently, cyber spying by Unit 61398 is "as active as it was before Mandiant’s report was released," the report said. The temporary reduction coincided with the U.S. The exposure also led to a temporary decrease in the unit’s attacks for a month. The military unit since 2006 has attacked and penetrated networks of at least 141 organizations located in 15 countries and representing 20 major industries, from information technology to financial services.Īfter the disclosures, Unit 61398 took steps to make it more difficult to track its cyber strikes. In February, the private security group Mandiant revealed Unit 61398 of the 2nd Bureau of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) General Staff Department’s Third Department. "These activities are designed to achieve a number of broad economic and strategic objectives, such as gathering intelligence, providing Chinese firms with an advantage over its competitors worldwide, advancing long-term research and development objectives, and gaining information that could enable future military operations." government and private organizations, including those of DoD, defense contractors, and private firms," the report said. ![]() "The Chinese government is directing and executing a large-scale cyber espionage campaign against the United States, and to date has successfully targeted the networks of U.S. The report concludes that the Chinese government is engaged in a concerted campaign of cyber attacks led by a Shanghai-based unit.Ĭhina’s cyber spying is designed to gain information for its military programs and civilian enterprises, and also for preparing the military to conduct attacks in a future conflict. Instead, the Chinese military group temporarily limited its large-scale cyber espionage campaign and took steps to mask its activities, according to a forthcoming report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
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