Showing posts with label 61398. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 61398. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

China Hacks Patriot Missile Blue Prints

     WASHINGTON- A hacker from China is said to have gained access to the design of more than two dozen major weapons systems in the United States. Quoting a report prepared for the Department of Defense by the Defense Science Board, the Washington Post said the successful hack included theft of blue prints for types of aircraft and ships, as well as the importance of missile defense for Europe, Asia, and the Gulf.



      Among the weapons listed in the report are a sophisticated system of Patriot missiles, ballistic missile defense system of the Navy, the F/A-18 fighter jet, the V-22 Osprey, Black Hawk helicopters, and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

      The report did not say when the cyber theft was done or who was involved. But the tactics used, such as the ability to paralyze and destroy data communications, refer to the origin of Chinese hackers.

      In a report to Congress this month, the Pentagon said that China uses cyber espionage to modernize its military and hacking because of serious concern. The U.S. government is said to be the target of hacking and is "directly attributable to the Chinese government and military."

      China has denied the report and has declared it unfounded.

      Previously, a computer security firm Mandiant says a Chinese secret military unit, 31698,  may be behind a series of hacking attacks in the U.S.. A total of 100 U.S. companies are rumored to have been the victims of these attacks.

This document http://www.kaskus.co.id/thread/51a67bc7db9248bf5d000003/hacker-china-berhasil-retas-blue-print-rudal-patriot/1 translated with google translator and edited for clarity.


Chinese Hackers spied on U.S. military secrets

   The most valuable U.S. military secrets have spent years exposed to the curiosity of China. Hackers has been exploiting an Asian giant's service for years to uncover the security flaws of Pentagon data banks and many of its contractors to steal programming codes and copy protected technological secrets Washington experts say.
 
      This could mean that China is winning the battle on the to U.S. in matters of cybersecurity.  It is said that this may be for getting advantage in case of a direct war between the two powers, according to military experts.
 
     For the first time it is known that Chinese hackers appropriated the design details of a dozen sophisticated weapons that make the U.S. military industrial complex and form the "backbone" of the country's defense system for Asia, Europe and the Persian Gulf , according to The Washington Post as reported yesterday, citing a report by the Defense Science Board from the Pentagon.
 
      Among the artifacts compromised by Chinese cyber intrusion is complex defense F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, considered the most expensive system ever built, at a cost of $1.4 billion. The designs also include several ships stolen such as F/A-18 fighter and the V-22 Osprey.  Also the Black Hawk helicopter and a new combat ship specially designed for special operations. Details to improve air defense systems, such as Patriot missiles and the Aegis ballistic missile of the Navy, have been stolen by Chinese hackers.
 
      While the authors of the report, a group of military and civilian advisers did not identify when the theft occurred and its duration, nor identify Beijing directly, they make clear their concern that the information obtained grant the Chinese military the ability to incapacitate the most sophisticated U.S. weaponry.
It seems that electronic eavesdropping was the path chosen by China to bridge the gap that separates U.S. advanced military technology, saving billions of dollars and years of research and development.
 
     "There are suspicions that the design theft fo the Fighter F-35 has helped China develop a version much faster" a military expert claimed who estimated that Beijing could have taken a leap of 25 years thanks to the appropriation of secrets.
 
      This issue has outraged politicians and U.S. military. The Pentagon issued a report last month to Congress in which, for the first time, accuses China of being "by far the most active in the theft of U.S. intellectual property."
 
      The country has defended itself by saying that they have been victims of cyber attacks.
For President Barack Obama, cyber security has become an obsession, so this will be a priority in his meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping in June in California.
 
      "It's an issue that we raised at all levels in meetings with our Chinese counterparts and I'm sure it will be a matter to be discussed", said White House spokesman, Jay Carney.

This page http://afondo.mx/2013/05/hackers-chinos-espiaron-los-secretos-militares-de-ee-uu/ has been translated with google and edited for clarity.

Monday, May 27, 2013

How the U.S. government supposedly spies on the world disguised as Chinese hackers

     In March of this year, the U.S. Treasury official Jacob Lu's visit on network security issues put pressure on China.
     Recently, in the United States, "Business Week" published an article entitled "How The U.S. government spies on the world". The article said that the U.S. government is against Chinese hacking, and continues to put pressure on the Chinese. In fact, the United States itself is in on the network security issues.  He then formed a greater threat to the country. The U.S. gave the Chinese hackers the opportunity to hit back at the U.S. government. China announced that the United States can do some more unseemly things.
The following is the full text:
     "Hidden in the dense woods 15 miles north of the road is the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) in congested Washington. The building covers an area of ​​6,000,000 square feet, full of satellite receivers.
     The U.S. National Security Agency was established in 1952, and is responsible for intercepting radio and other electronic transmissions. Today, a lot of resources are given to spies to steal information on "static electronic data."  This information comes from terrorist network computers and hard drives, rogue states, and even nominally friendly governments.
     Former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Mike McConnell said that U.S. President Barack Obama receives daily intelligence briefings, the majority of the information from the government spy network. "This information is at least 75%, or even more." He said.
     U.S. National Security plays an important role in intelligence gathering and makes it difficult for the U.S. government to put pressure on other countries - particularly China - who could not stop them from stealing American company database product details and trade secrets. In recent months, the Obama administration has begun to publicly humiliate China, calling attention to the  Chinese cyber espionage program that has been eyeing a number of US companies, including Google, Yahoo and Intel, stealing their source code and other confidential information.
     This spring, the U.S. Treasury Secretary James Blue (Jacob Lew) and the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colonel Martin Dempsey visited China on the hacking events and put pressure on the Chinese officials. On the 26th of May the U.S. National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon is scheduled to visit China.
China's response: who's talking
     "You went in and sat across from hackers who said, 'You are spies, we are spies, but you should not steal from someone that stole something.' If this is the case, then the dialogue will be difficult to carry out."  Former U.S. National Security Secretary and CIA director Michael Hayden says, "between countries spy on each other and I have to see to understand." Hayden is now on the Washington security consulting firm Chertoff Group as a supervisor. He said: "But this is not a race, which country can spy on private companies.  It is not even a fair contest."
     In May, the Pentagon submitted to Congress the first official Chinese government report on direct snooping on U.S. defense contractors. The report shows that U.S. intelligence is being a massive theft of government agencies.  The agencies are very familiar with how to steal technology from U.S. companies. This makes the Sino-US relations even more tense. Chinese leaders have always denied manipulating hackers. Official media, "People's Daily" published an article about the Pentagon report, saying the U.S. is the "real Matrix."
The U.S. government does not deny having an espionage network.
     "You're not waiting for someone to decide to put the information into electronic photons, and then send them out." Hayden said, "The information is transmitted to the storage place from the opponent's network information, and in this regard is doing the best.  Then stop there."
     The U.S.'s position is that some hacking is more tolerable than others, and the U.S. National Security hacking during the Cold War was to follow the set of informal rules, and this is acceptable.
     Port Washington is a good security risk management company for the companies that were attacked by hackers advice. The person in charge, Jacob Olcott, said: "China is now doing exactly what you should not do."
Custom Entrance Organization
     The U.S. National Security Agency has a hacking team called "Custom Entrance Organization" (Tailored Access Operations, referred to as TAO). According to two anonymous former U.S. National Security Bureau officials, the agency collected a lot of information, including information on terrorist financial networks, international money laundering and the drug trade, as well as foreign military information and even domestic political opponents strategies about their own potential controversy.
     Over the years, the U.S. National Security Agency has not recognized the existence of TAO.Another anonymous Pentagon officials confirmed that, TAO engages in cyber espionage, or as the U.S. Department of Defense called it "computer network use," but he stressed that, TAO is not against technology, trade secrets or financial secrets. The official said the number of people working for the TAO is confidential. U.S. Homeland Security spokesman VaneĆ© Vines refused to answer any questions about TAO.
Intelligence fusion center resources
     Two former NSA officials agreed to introduce TAO and its activities, but declined to disclose it for the government and units. Mostly the U.S. spy network of military units have received special training. They sat in front of the stage to run the complex manipulation of hacking software, filtered from the world's computers to steal information, and then transferred to the "fusion center intelligence resources",  Then intelligence analysts process all information.  The NSB U.S. law prohibits the stealing from U.S. domestic residents or companies, including non-US citizens, and citizens not in the United States of America.
     According to one official the agency received a staggering two petabytes per hour from foreign computer systems.  That is almost 2.1 million gigabytes, or rather hundreds of millions of pages of text information.
     The U.S. National Security Agency has automated the process,  Like the real world, like a spy, the U.S. network of spies try to cover their tracks or to camouflage them on their own.  Even in such ways such as masquerading as Chinese hackers to protect themselves from the hacking  being found
Flourishing network-industrial complex
     Although the Pentagon and other agencies are having budget cuts the NSA hackers are still creating a thriving network of industrial complexes.  Defense contractors and small companies are hired to create a specific hacking tools, looking for security vulnerabilities in commonly used software, so that the government can use these tactics. KEYW CEO Leonard Moodispaw said the company has done very powerful business intelligence training for the United States once.  However, he said, will not disclose more information about it.
"We say that the federal government does not like us too give away much detail." He said.
     The Federation of American Scientists political confidential survey project leader Steven Aftergood says that all these hacking activities give China the opportunity to hit back at the U.S. government. China can reverse the U.S. protests against industrial espionage, and declare that the United States does some unseemly things.
The plan to steal a new car may be possible.  But you can not steal state secrets.
New focus
     Intelligence officials have put pressure on China.  One way to attack is to restrict the country from hacking into trade secrets.  Selling stolen technology manufactured products would cause the creation of import restrictions.  The manufacturers of these products staff Visas would not be approved.
     "We do not enter into the philosophical level, the controversy can be accepted on what espionage contains and does not contain." Hayden said.  Instead, the United States should pay attention to China, and it's economic areas that might benefit from such thefts."
     In February, the Obama administration said that it would consider sanctioning countries that  steal company information. Network security expert Christopher Finan said that such punishment is difficult to put into practice. Finanm until last yearm has worked in the Obama administration's National Security Council.
     "It is too hard to determine whether a product in the end is using stolen technology, or the country of manufacturer used the technology to progress itself." Finan said, "the existing intellectual property protection loss is a mess, and can not be defined."
     Finan said he believes the tough sanctions may bring more than just a trade war, but can also harm the same U.S. company and products, which is what they want.  To protect the object.
"China has been looking at measures to limit U.S. companies in China's domestic market." He said, "this will help them."

This article taken from: www.cnhacker.org/435.html‎ translated into English and edited for clarity.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

61398 - China or Israel?

     This recent article that was posted on theVerge.com on May 22nd explains that the US Congress is considering proposing new laws in order to allow American Companies to wage cyber attacks against China if current Intellectual Property theft crimes against US Companies continue to occur.  Several Terabytes of data have been stolen containing military secrets.  This page from the National Defense Magazine continues to suggest that 61398, the online group to blame, are the Chinese Military's secret People's Liberation Army.  It all adds up considering that the US does owe China approximately $1.3 trillion dollars.  Shouldn't China feel that they have the right to collect their debt in anyway at their disposal?  Several authorities have already suggested that China has a much more powerful cyber army than the US, and if not are expected to by the year 2030.

 

     However, havf8, an established youtube poster, has been suggesting since March of 2013 that 61398 is not based in Shanghai, as the majority of google results would lead one to believe, but that it are actually a unit based out of Tel Aviv, Israel.  In this convincing video that havf8 has posted on youtube months ago, he explains why Israel would have a reason to mislead the US into believing that the attacks are coming from China.  Supposedly both countries have reasons to want to go to war with America.  Havf8 explains how Israel is using China as a phantom to deceive the US into believing that China is responsible.

 

     All in all, one has any way of knowing where these Intellectual Property theft attacks are coming from, but they are happening.  Several advisers have already commented that allowing US companies to wage cyber wars against China would not be a good idea.  America already relies on them too much and causing further diplomatic tensions would not be of use to anyone.  The US companies should work on securing their own defenses rather than start more confrontations based on theory.  Honeypots, or misinformation, could be set up in order to conclude where the leaked information is showing up at.   Instead of jumping to conclusions hopefully the current administration has all of this information and can settle this matter responsibly.  God Bless.