After the "spy chip", the American media is now hacking Chinese hackers

Not long ago, the US media Bloomberg wrote a report that shocked the world, claiming that the Chinese People's Liberation Army asked a US computer hardware company's Chinese factory to secretly implant a "spy chip" the size of a grain of rice on the computer server motherboards they produced, and used this "black technology" to successfully invade the servers of well-known US IT companies Apple and Amazon.

Although this report was immediately refuted by the governments of the United States, Britain, Germany, and many giants such as Apple and Amazon, it still attracted a lot of attention.

Recently, the American media has been in an uproar again. They have begun to promote the China threat theory, and feel that the two countries are about to start a secret war on the Internet again.

At a forum at the Aspen Cyber ​​Summit on Thursday, former NSA hacker Rob Joyce and Symantec CEO Greg Clark sensationally stated that the Obama administration's cybersecurity legacy has disappeared, and China has once again taken the old path in the past year, waging a massive cyberwar against the United States. Chinese hackers not only monitor American companies, but also collect intelligence and steal trade secrets.

"The trends of Chinese hackers have begun to change over the past year, and that's a trend that worries us," said Rob Joyce, former White House security czar.

Some experts analyzed that the hackers' unusual movements are closely related to the gradually escalating Sino-US trade war.

Correlation does not necessarily mean causation. CrowdStrike co-founder and CTO Alperovitch pointed out that China's internal reforms and anti-corruption activities in the past few years are the main reasons why hackers have stopped their activities. Fighting foreign targets is no longer their main task.

"We've been tracking these dangerous people," Alperovitch said. "They didn't disappear, they just turned their guns around." Now, these people are back and they want revenge.

Clark believes the situation has gotten so bad that one of his clients has completely abandoned the development of a new product because he believes his blueprints were completely stolen by Chinese hackers.

“An executive from a large manufacturer came into my office and said they had given up on protecting their secrets because they were all being stolen and we had to innovate faster,” Clark said.

However, this wave of sensational US cybersecurity experts also has differences, and they cannot reach a consensus on how to resist the "attacks" of Chinese hackers. Joyce believes that Trump should cut off the "infrastructure" of Chinese hackers directly, so as to expose the tools they use. The United States has many ways to make Chinese hacker attacks ineffective or increasingly difficult to succeed.

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Alperovitch believes that deeper economic sanctions could become a "declaration of war."

"This is not a cyber issue, this is purely an economic war," he said. "Using economic means to respond and exert pressure is the correct strategy."

However, there are also voices in the United States that are not determined to criticize China. Panelist Elsa Kania of the Center for American Security believes that as more and more Chinese companies enter overseas markets, their original innovation will be more important than stealing competitors' intellectual property.

“Chinese companies have the ambition to shed their reputation as intellectual property thefts and become true leaders,” Kania said. “We will see a broader shift in the future.”

Three years ago, China and the United States signed an agreement promising that their hackers would not attack each other's companies. After a long period of peace, it is still unknown whether a cyber war will be launched between the two countries, but the recent US media seems to be very obvious.

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