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The government, as well as private computers and laptops are believed to be controlled by a spy network controlled from China. The internet researchers who revealed this, also disclosed that by now these ghost networks have managed to hack into the classified documents of the victim institutions. The victims, according to the researchers include Nato, foreign ministries, banks, embassies, as well as some new firms across the world. They also claim that the computers used by the Tibetan religious leader Dalai Lama, and the other exiles are also among the 1295 compromised computers.
Would This Follow The Cyber Attacks?
The research team from the Information Warfare Monitor agency had initially set out for the investigation of Chinese Cyber espionage, alleged by the Tibetan exile community. However, the investigation led to a much broader network of infected machines all over the world. IWM, in on of its statements revealed that they could not identify the hackers conclusively, although the main source of the ghost network appeared to be China.
Over the years, Chinese hackers were found lurking in the cyber-spaces to target repeatedly the western networks. The invasion from China on the computers at the Whitehall departments including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2007 more than substantiates this. The MI5 director general Jonathan Evans had then alerted three hundred business firms in the UK that they were subject to cyber attack from China.
The intelligence chiefs of Britain had also issued a warning recently stating that potential capability for shutting down Britain by damaging its utilities and telecoms may have been gained by China by then. As a matter of fact, they also reminded the fact that the UK telecom giant BT has many of its vital equipment installed by the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, which can be used to impede critical services such as water supplies, food and power, at the time of an emergency.
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