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Add Belgium to the list of Chinese cyber targets

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May 8, 20081 min

With this news story it is time to start accumulating a list of countries that have found that they are being targeted by China in industrial and military espionage efforts. In this case they are using the tried and true Trojan Horse technique.  

Here we go:

UK

Germany

United States

Tibetan support groups

France

India

Belgium

Holland

That is from memory. Anyone know of others?

Update from commenter Brian:

Australia

New Zealand

And, in all fariness, the Chinese goverment categorically denies that they are engaged in cyber espionage. As a matter of fact they are the victims of cyber attacks as well .  

Richard Stiennon is chief research analyst at IT-Harvest, the firm he founded in 2005 to cover the 1,600 vendors that make up the IT security industry. He is the author of Surviving Cyberwar (Government Institutes, 2010) and There Will Be Cyberwar: How the Move to Network-Centric Warfighting Set the Stage for Cyberwar. He is a member of the advisory board at the Information Governance Initiative and principal of TrueBit Cyber Partners. He also serves on the R2-TAC, the technical advisory committee for the Responsible Recycling standard for e-waste.

Stiennon was chief marketing officer for Fortinet Inc. and vice president of threat research at Webroot Software. Prior to that, he was vice president of research at Gartner Inc. He has a B.S. in aerospace engineering and an M.A. in war in the modern world from King’s College, London.

The opinions expressed in this blog are those of Richard Stiennon and do not necessarily represent those of IDG Communications Inc. or its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies.

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