A mysterious Chinese troops were considered to be a productive series of hacker attacks back, the computer security company said, China's government, for it is not involved in the action of the contradiction.
The report Mandiant certainty is the most likely driving force behind the hacker liberation army headquarters is located in Shanghai's unit 61398. Mandiant said, it argues that the unit to "continuous" attack a group of a wide range of industries.
"Unit 61398" the nature of the work is believed to be in China is a state secret, but we believe that, in harmful computer network operation ", "in the United States Mandiant released Monday said in a report.
"This is recognized threat to originating in China, we want to give our armed and ready to safety professionals, effectively against this threat," he said.
China's defense ministry did not immediately respond to a report Tuesday fax problem.
Unit 61398 is located in the pudong new area of Shanghai, China's financial and banking center, and equipped with may have tens of thousands of people have a good command of English and computer programming and network operation, the report said.
Steal "at least 141 organizations in a different industry, as early as in 2006 began hundreds of TB data, it said."
Most of the victims are located in the United States, Canada and Britain's smaller Numbers. Stolen information, from the details of the mergers and acquisitions senior employee E-mail, the report said.
The Chinese government has been denied having taken part in these activities. Experts laughed at denial.
"The Chinese people's liberation army (PLA) plays a key role in China's all-round security strategy, so it makes sense, its resources will be used to promote economic network spy activity, to help China's economy," said dmitry Alperovitch, chief technology officer and cooperation, founder of the CrowdStrike Mandiant, the competition of.
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