As DM168 recently reported, the US claims hackers linked to Russia’s government targeted countries — including South Africa — in a campaign to disrupt the world’s energy sector. Now America has also implicated China, saying it targeted SA in another international hacking campaign. China, however, is having none of it.
Chinese government operatives allegedly targeted South Africa’s defence and maritime research sectors as part of what the US claims was an international hacking campaign aimed at stealing trade secrets, including about the Ebola virus.
The embassy then pointed to the US as being its biggest cyberattacker: “The US is the largest source of cyberattacks targeting China. Data show that in 2020, relevant Chinese institutions captured 42 million malicious program samples,” it said. So, if what the US is alleging about China is true, China broke the agreement. And the reverse is also true if the US hacked China.
The US, however, believed that the alleged front company employed hackers “who sought to and did steal such data from companies and universities involved in virus and vaccine research of the Ebola virus and maritime research and development.
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