The Chinese Foreign minister, Wang Yi, during a visit of the Us secretary John Kerry emphasized that China and the United States have to work together for the safety and security of the internet.
The comments are an attempt to reduce tensions between China and the United States in the field of internet security to reduce. The countries accuse each other for years over and over again of extensive hackaanvallen and also there are conflicts about the integrity of a network of Chinese companies such as Huawei. Wang Yi reiterated during the visit of Kerry that China fiercely opposes any form of hackactiviteiten’, writes the Chinese staatspersdienst Xinhua.
At the beginning of this year, a report of the American security firm Mandiant raised some dust: the company claimed in the voluminous document that a Chinese espionage unit to hundreds of terabytes of data from at least 141 companies and organizations has been stolen. The group of hackers, referred to as ‘APT1’, would have characteristics of unit 61398 of the people’s liberation army, the military arm of the Communist Party of China, and the hacks would, therefore, be controlled by the Chinese government. The report came after several Us organizations, such as the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, revealed hacked.
Also the Dutch intelligence service AIVD warns of Chinese espionage. China says, in turn, are victim to large-scale cyber attacks from Western countries, without details about the nature and extent.