China Is Winning The CyberwarChances are your data has already been harvested by Chinese-backed hackers.
By JOHN MAC GHLIONN
MARCH 24, 2022
Cybercrime is on the rise. In fact, by 2025, the annual cost of cybercrime is predicted to be as high as $10.5 trillion globally. The cybercrime economy is now worth more than the German and Italian economies combined. The U.S. is the largest target for cyber-attacks in the world.
Many of these attacks are backed by the Chinese regime. According to experts, the danger posed by Chinese state-sponsored hacking has never been greater than it is today.
Richard Stiennon, chief research analyst at IT-Harvest, told me that “China is much more visible in their cyber-attacks” than the United States. Since Titan Rain, a series of coordinated attacks that targeted government agencies in the U.S. and U.K. that began in 2003, China has “been discovered infiltrating government and industry networks to steal data.” Stiennon added that Chinese hackers operate “with impunity, relying on plausible deniability, and lack of pushback to continue.”
However, he argued the U.S. “is far more capable than China.” Why doesn’t the U.S. strike back? It does, he said, but it “has different targets,” namely, “military and political entities.” Of course, China has those very same kinds of targets, namely, the United States’ military and political entities. Chinese hackers have been stealing U.S. defense secrets for years.
Make no mistake, China and the U.S. are engaged in a cyberwar. Although Stiennon stressed that the U.S. is capable of “handling itself,” it’s difficult to feel confident when one sees stories of Chinese state-sponsored hacking groups successfully infiltrating U.S. government agencies.
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Source:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/china-is-winning-the-cyberwar/
