Chinese Military Admits Existence of Cyberwarfare Unit 153
InfiniteZero writes "China has admitted for the first time that it had poured massive investment into the formation of a 30-strong commando unit of cyberwarriors — a team supposedly trained to protect the People's Liberation Army from outside assault on its networks."
"Cyber Warriors" (Score:1, Interesting)
Does this include drone pilots, like the ones the US has, dropping bombs from the basement of a Las Vegas casino? I mean, what could be more 'cyber' than that?
Re:The best defense is a strong offense (Score:3, Interesting)
Continuing to see things as simply a police matter, like robbery of a Bodega, leaves you looking very foolish when airplanes fly into your buildings.
The Chinese have finally admitted what was suspected all along, and yet you arrive hand waiving it away as the act of misbehaving children.
Bank robberies usually net some cash, which is easily spendable, locally, and quickly. You can rest assured there will be money in any given bank.
Hackers breaking into NASA, the Army, Lockheed, General Dynamics, Northrup, Raytheon, and Boeing can never be sure they will get anything at all, or that what they do get will be marketable. Its fairly difficult for your average college hacker to market the plans for an F22 or the communications system of a Predator drone.
It is simply not believable that your average hacker in a locked down country like China would spend that much effort with continued and concerted attacks, focused on military assets and defense contractors just for the fun of it.
Why would they, when they could get paid to do it working for their government?
So that's who hacked Lockheed Martin. (Score:2, Interesting)
The attack on RSA, then Lockheed Martin was too long term and risky for any of the Organized Crime hacking groups. It was definitely a government. The only ones that can capitalize on the return are the Chinese. Well, I suppose the French might be an extremely unlikely 2nd place.
So, they hacked Lockheed, so they could make better attack aircraft, so they could protect the PLA from outside assault on its networks. Like hell. About the same time the attack on Lockheed went down, I noticed they were scanning for BGP. First time I've seen BGP scanning in years. It all looks offensive to me.