Network security company CrowdStrike revealed late Sunday, Oct. 21 that it “has detected and prevented a number of intrusions into our customers’ systems from actors we have affiliated with the Chinese government. The very first intrusion conducted by China-affiliated actors after the joint Xi-Obama announcement at the White House took place the very next day – Saturday, September 26th.” Does it threaten U.S.-China relations?
In the nearly four weeks since Presidents Obama and Xi Jinping signed an agreement to not conduct economic cyber espionage CrowdStrike has stopped more than 20 separate attacks on technology and pharmaceutical companies from “known Chinese-affiliated hackers” against seven client companies according to Dmitri Alperovitch, the co-founder and chief technology officer of CrowdStrike in his blog on Oct. 19. “The primary benefit of the intrusions seems clearly aligned to facilitate theft of intellectual property and trade secrets, rather than to conduct traditional national-security related intelligence collection which the cyber agreement does not prohibit,” Alperovitch clarified.
The intent of the hackers is the thorny issue. The agreement made between the two countries is narrowly-worded; almost smoke-and-mirrors, to satiate companies crying foul when attacked by players that steal corporate secrets to support domestic businesses. The agreement stopped short of restricting spying for national intelligence and to obtain government secrets, including those held by private contractors. It also implied that agreed that neither government would knowingly support cyber theft. That leaves room for denial and more distrust. For the full article click here
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