This post was made on 10/05/2018.
A Chinese hacking group known as cloudhopper is launching cyber-attacks on technology service providers in an attempt to steal data.
The Department of Homeland believes that the government of China may be aiding this hacking group, but the Chinese government denies these allegations. China’s government may be behind this because of the escalating trade war between the U.S and China.
The cloudhopper hacking group usually tries to access a internet router to spread malware and other malicious code. They use unrelenting bots to try and get into these routers and collect what they need. They usually target telecommunications, technology, and other types of wireless technology. They usually try to access telecommunications especially because of how much sensitive information is on there that they can use for their own villainous intentions.
U.S cybersecurity firms are aware of cloudhopper and is sending out information on how to prevent, find, and remedy, cyberattacks from cloudhopper. This information will help technology service providers be more careful and hopefully stop any cyber-attack attempts that cloudhopper will try to use on them.
It wouldn’t surprise me if China was helping these hackers to get personal info. The trade war is starting to become more and more volatile as the U.S is making it harder to sell and buy things. If China loses U.S as a trading partner then they are going to lose a lot of money as a result. So now China has become more aggressive and is trying to collect data. For what though? I can’t exactly answer that question, but if I had to guess I would say that China is trying to have an influence on the U.S population. Russia did this in the 2016 election to make all sorts of propaganda to divide the people of the U.S, and you know what? It kind of worked. So now China is trying to do the same thing and collect data to target certain people into supporting whoever China wants. There could be other ways they are using this info, like for money, identity theft, or something along those lines.
My theory could be completely wrong and they are using that data in other ways, but that’s not the point. We now have to have our cybersecurity ready now more then ever if we want to be able to prevent threats like this. Luckily our cybersecurity analysts have identified this and warned potential victims of these cyber-attacks and has given them instructions on what to look for. We are going to have our cybersecurity on its toes in the future if we are going to be able to combat to these cyber-attacks, because,in the future, these attacks will become way more elaborate and vicious.
Source:
Cyberleech 