From World Champions to State Assets: The Outsized Impact of a Few Chinese Hackers
“China already has a bigger hacking program than every other major nation combined.” So warned FBI Director Chris Wray last year. He continued: “If each one of the FBI’s cyber agents and intelligence analysts focused on China exclusively, Chinese hackers would still outnumber our cyber personnel by at least 50 to 1.” But this rather striking statement of the scale of the challenge obscures one of China’s key characteristics when it comes to offensive cyber operations. As I discuss in a recent report for the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich, within its vast cyber-espionage ecosystem, China relies on The post From World Champions to State Assets: The Outsized Impact of a Few Chinese Hackers appeared first on War on the Rocks.
“China already has a bigger hacking program than every other major nation combined.” So warned FBI Director Chris Wray last year. He continued: “If each one of the FBI’s cyber agents and intelligence analysts focused on China exclusively, Chinese hackers would still outnumber our cyber personnel by at least 50 to 1.” But this rather striking statement of the scale of the challenge obscures one of China’s key characteristics when it comes to offensive cyber operations. As I discuss in a recent report for the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich, within its vast cyber-espionage ecosystem, China relies on
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