As per The Reg, an investigation called « The Matrix » conducted by the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center of China and local cybersecurity firm 360 Total Security.
Facepalm: The term « Chinese hacker » has become a common saying in pop culture, but it seems the Asian nation has a similar term for the US: the « Empire of Hacking. » The name appears in a new Chinese report that accuses the CIA of using cyberattacks against China and other countries.
As per The Reg, an investigation called « The Matrix » conducted by the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center of China and local cybersecurity firm 360 Total Security has been published in a report titled Empire of Hacking: The US Central Intelligence Agency – Part I.
The report claims that investigators examining a number of cyberattacks within China captured and extracted a large number of Trojans, functional plug-ins, and attack platform samples alleged to be closely associated with the CIA, revealing an « empire of hackers » under US control, writes the South China Morning Post.
« These cyberweapons have undergone strict, standardised, and professional software engineering management, which is uniquely followed by the CIA in developing cyberattack weapons, » the report states.
But many of the findings come from old information gleaned from a 2017 series of leaks on the CIA by Wikileaks, codenamed Vault7.
