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U.S. Decides to Retaliate Against China’s Hacking

FBI: China the most predominant economic espionage threat to US

Spies, largely of Chinese origin, are going to dramatic lengths to steal critical information from U.S. companies, officials within the intelligence community say.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday detailed a sharp spike in the number of economic espionage investigations undertaken by the agency over the last year, with a 53 percent increase in caseloads.

Randall Coleman, the head of the agency’s counterintelligence division, said in a briefing that state-sanctioned corporate theft by China is at the core of the problem.

Coleman said that Beijing is the most predominant threat facing the United States from the standpoint of economic espionage.

The federal government’s data appears to show just how deep this problem runs.

A recent FBI survey of 165 U.S. companies found that China was the perpetrator in 95 percent of economic-espionage cases.

Officials say that theft of trade secrets and intellectual property has resulted in the loss of hundreds billions of dollars from the U.S. economy over the last year alone.

Other big targets for economic spies are specifications for U.S. military technology and proprietary information on everything from superconductors to seed-and-grain hybrids.

“It’s across the board,” said Dean Chappell, a section chief in the FBI’s counterintelligence division. “It’s not high-end avionics for military aircraft; it’s not joint strike fighter stuff. It’s all of the things that we see every day.”

In a change from more traditional modes of economic espionage, such spies are appearing as non-traditional actors, serving as insider threats within organizations and institutions, officials say.

William Evanina, head of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said such individuals have been observed in the U.S. serving as professors, engineers, travelling students and businessmen.

Officials also warn of cyber tactics used to hijack intellectual property and trade secrets.

In particular, actors, predominantly from China, are known to employ mass spear-phishing campaigns to coax employees inside companies into clicking tainted links or attachments.

If successful, the actor could get critical data off of the organization’s computer network.

China in particular has been publicly outed on multiple occasions by the Obama administration for its efforts geared toward breaching private sector interest.

U.S. economists blame Beijing for contributing to an increasingly uneven playing field on the world economic scene.

“To sustain its phenomenal growth rate, China must employ cyberattacks to steal information,” said Scott Borg, director and chief economist of U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, a non-profit research institute. “Cyberattacks stealing competitively important business information are a fundamental part of the national economic development strategy of China. For this reason, getting China to moderate this behavior will be extremely difficult.”

As a result, The FBI has announced a nationwide awareness campaign and continues to develop relationships within U.S. industry.

The agency, for example, assigns agents to serve as strategic partnership coordinators with companies that may have been the victim of intellectual property or trade secret theft.

The coordinators are stationed at each of the agency’s 56 field offices.

The campaign has also prompted the FBI to take a visual approach in spreading its message.

“The Company Man: Protecting America’s Secrets” is a highly produced short video commissioned by the agency that depicts a real-life case of economic espionage handled by the feds.

The agency has shown it in 1,300 briefings with companies across the nation in hopes of raising awareness on the issue.

“Protection of our proprietary information and trade secrets is a critical pillar to our national security,” Evanina said. “The way we look at it, economic security is national security.”

FBI: China the most predominant economic espionage threat to US | Fox News

There's a video at the link of an undercover FBI sting operation of a Chinese CEO attempting to buy corporate secrets. He was arrested and deported.
 
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Go my chinese freinds hack those yankee a$$es :lol:
I don't think anyone ever said that. What we are saying is that hacking into innocent citizens data banks, and putting their data online....has no real purpose. Revealing millions of people's details and letting criminals use it, has no real strategic advantage for China.

The US intelligence community, irrespective of how much access and knowledge they have, won't play so low-life and put millions of Chinese citizens data online for people to access. They are mature organizations and only go after what's strategic. Putting common citizens information online serves no real purpose, isn't strategic and doesn't make you look good as a country or even a mature intelligence organization.
Bullshit chinese hacked your designs of upcoming stealth fighters ,so that,s not called a strategic hacking?
 
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Don't act like a saint, everyone steals just like your beloved declining country Japan.
Japanese used to love to steal and copy US techlonogy.I remember my japanese teacher used to tell me how toshiba copying and stealing CPU technology from Intel years ago.
 
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Japanese used to love to steal and copy US techlonogy.I remember my japanese teacher used to tell me how toshiba copying and stealing CPU technology from Intel years ago.

I highly doubt that, my friend.
 
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If you really thought that the NSA wasn't spying on China all along, then I don't know what to tell you. The reason the US continues to "point fingers" at China is due to the amount of economic espionage the Chinese government is involved in. According to the FBI Director, China is involved in 95% of economic espionage cases in the US. Why do you think we don't call out the Russians more often, even though they are listed as a greater cyber threat than China? Because they aren't stealing our companies intellectual property on the scale China is. The CCP and the Chinese companies who are using our stolen IP are essentially frauds.
Ok.. name ONE Chinese company that‘s been charged with cyber-espionage for using stolen technology from the US. If we are doing it on such a "large scale", finding a few will be easy. What's stopping the DOJ from filing charges?

The US can point fingers at whoever it wants but after the WMD fiasco in Iraq,no one is gonna believe ya:lol:

And for the last time, calling us frauds isn't going to make your computers any safer. Did you hear us calling you leeches for importing so many brainpower from China? Nope. Only losers keep on whining.
 
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Japanese used to love to steal and copy US techlonogy.I remember my japanese teacher used to tell me how toshiba copying and stealing CPU technology from Intel years ago.
Expected from the Japanese.
 
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US arguments are as credible as the Iraqi WMDs.

The world a;ready started to mock the US. LOL.

One of the main reasons why the US has become so powerful is due to decades of research and development that has advanced our scientific and technological base.

No. Due to decades of stealing and plundering others' wealth. Heck, your soldiers plundered the entire Iraqi reserve, stolen priceless artifacts and set up lucrative drug business in Afghanistan.

This advancement has come from the hard work of our scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and innovators.

Wow, wow... That's funny. Is that a script from Obama's 2008 presidential speech?

FBI: China the most predominant economic espionage threat to US

Spies, largely of Chinese origin, are going to dramatic lengths to steal critical information from U.S. companies, officials within the intelligence community say.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday detailed a sharp spike in the number of economic espionage investigations undertaken by the agency over the last year, with a 53 percent increase in caseloads.

Randall Coleman, the head of the agency’s counterintelligence division, said in a briefing that state-sanctioned corporate theft by China is at the core of the problem.

Coleman said that Beijing is the most predominant threat facing the United States from the standpoint of economic espionage.

The federal government’s data appears to show just how deep this problem runs.

A recent FBI survey of 165 U.S. companies found that China was the perpetrator in 95 percent of economic-espionage cases.

Officials say that theft of trade secrets and intellectual property has resulted in the loss of hundreds billions of dollars from the U.S. economy over the last year alone.

Other big targets for economic spies are specifications for U.S. military technology and proprietary information on everything from superconductors to seed-and-grain hybrids.

“It’s across the board,” said Dean Chappell, a section chief in the FBI’s counterintelligence division. “It’s not high-end avionics for military aircraft; it’s not joint strike fighter stuff. It’s all of the things that we see every day.”

In a change from more traditional modes of economic espionage, such spies are appearing as non-traditional actors, serving as insider threats within organizations and institutions, officials say.

William Evanina, head of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said such individuals have been observed in the U.S. serving as professors, engineers, travelling students and businessmen.

Officials also warn of cyber tactics used to hijack intellectual property and trade secrets.

In particular, actors, predominantly from China, are known to employ mass spear-phishing campaigns to coax employees inside companies into clicking tainted links or attachments.

If successful, the actor could get critical data off of the organization’s computer network.

China in particular has been publicly outed on multiple occasions by the Obama administration for its efforts geared toward breaching private sector interest.

U.S. economists blame Beijing for contributing to an increasingly uneven playing field on the world economic scene.

“To sustain its phenomenal growth rate, China must employ cyberattacks to steal information,” said Scott Borg, director and chief economist of U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, a non-profit research institute. “Cyberattacks stealing competitively important business information are a fundamental part of the national economic development strategy of China. For this reason, getting China to moderate this behavior will be extremely difficult.”

As a result, The FBI has announced a nationwide awareness campaign and continues to develop relationships within U.S. industry.

The agency, for example, assigns agents to serve as strategic partnership coordinators with companies that may have been the victim of intellectual property or trade secret theft.

The coordinators are stationed at each of the agency’s 56 field offices.

The campaign has also prompted the FBI to take a visual approach in spreading its message.

“The Company Man: Protecting America’s Secrets” is a highly produced short video commissioned by the agency that depicts a real-life case of economic espionage handled by the feds.

The agency has shown it in 1,300 briefings with companies across the nation in hopes of raising awareness on the issue.

“Protection of our proprietary information and trade secrets is a critical pillar to our national security,” Evanina said. “The way we look at it, economic security is national security.”

FBI: China the most predominant economic espionage threat to US | Fox News

There's a video at the link of an undercover FBI sting operation of a Chinese CEO attempting to buy corporate secrets. He was arrested and deported.

But who believes in US regime's spying agency?

Hint: They need more funds.
 
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