![]() What has remained consistent over time is the principal focus of China’s cyber operations, which, in general, is the economic viability and growth of China’s domestic industry and advancement of its scientific research, development, and modernization efforts. China’s approach has evolved too quickly its actors too heterogenous and many. John Costello, former chief of staff, Office of the National Cyber Director: China has established a mature operational segmentation and capabilities-sharing system, allowing teams to quickly distribute and use a vulnerability after its use was compromised.” After the vulnerability became public and their operation’s stealth was compromised, the number of hacking teams using the vulnerability exploded. A small number of teams exploited a vulnerability in a critical system to collecting intelligence on their targets. ![]() “China’s use of the 2021 Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerability to access email servers captures the essence of modern Chinese hacking operations. #1 Is there a particular example that typifies the “Chinese” model of cyber operations?ĭakota Cary, nonresident fellow, Global China Hub, Atlantic Council consultant, Krebs Stamos Group: We brought together a group of experts to provide insights into China’s cyber behavior, its structure, and how its operations differ from those of other states. The number of China-sponsored and aligned hacking teams are growing, as they develop and deploy offensive cyber capabilities to serve the state’s interests-from economic to national security. ![]() Public reporting indicates that, for the better part of the past two decades, China has consistently engaged in offensive cyber operations, and as the scope of the country’s economic and political ambitions expanded, so has its cyber footprint. ![]() On October 6, 2022, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and National Security Agency released a joint cybersecurity advisory outlining the top Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures that Chinese state-linked hacking groups have been actively exploiting since 2020 to target US and allied networks. Interested in the 5×5 and want to see a particular topic, event, or question covered? Contact Simon Handler with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at. SentinelOne’s cybersecurity solution encompasses AI-powered prevention, detection, response and hunting across endpoints, containers, cloud workloads, and IoT devices in a single autonomous XDR platform.By Simon Handler This article is part of The 5×5, a monthly series by the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, in which five featured experts answer five questions on a common theme, trend, or current event in the world of cyber. Prior to joining Chronicle, he was Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky’s GReAT team focusing on targeted attacks and worked as Senior Cybersecurity and National Security Advisor to the Government of Ecuador. Juan Andrés was Chronicle Security’s Research Tsar, founding researcher of the Uppercase team. The investigators claimed that if all the information stolen was printed out and stacked, it would be three times the height of the Washington Monument. The work affected NASA, the Pentagon, military contractors, civilian academics, the DOE, and numerous other American government agencies. His work on Moonlight Maze (and likeness) are in the Spy Museum permanent exhibit in Washington DC. Juan Andrés is Senior Director of Research at SentinelOne and an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). ![]() Juan Andrés Guerrero Saada headshot Juan Andrés Guerrero Saada ![]()
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