China has sharply escalated cyberattacks on Australian companies this year in a "constant, significant effort" to steal intellectual property, according to a report published Tuesday. The investigation by Fairfax Media and commercial broadcaster Channel Nine comes just days after U. S. Vice President Mike Pence accused Beijing at
China has sharply escalated cyberattacks on Australian companies this year in a “constant, significant effort” to steal intellectual property, according to a report published Tuesday.
The investigation by Fairfax Media and commercial broadcaster Channel Nine comes just days after U. S. Vice President Mike Pence accused Beijing at the APEC summit of widespread “intellectual property theft”.
The report said China’s Ministry of State Security was responsible for “Operation Cloud Hopper”, a wave of attacks it said were detected by Canberra and its partners in the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance — the U. S., Britain, Canada and New Zealand.
An unnamed senior Australian government official told Fairfax the activity was “a constant, significant effort to steal our intellectual property”, while other officials expressed frustration that firms and universities were not tightening their security.
