Only five nations would be capable of sponsoring a massive cyber-espionage campaign that infiltrated governments, international organizations, and high-tech companies, persisted over years, and stole billions of dollars’ worth of intellectual property—like the operation unveiled by security firm McAfee this week.
The United States and the U.K. can be removed from the equation because they don’t spy on each other. Iran and Russia are capable, but the evidence doesnt suggest they were involved. Taking into account past campaigns of monumental hacking, and considering the Asian focus in the recent attack, there’s only one country left, according to James Lewis, director of the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in a Twitter post.
China.
via Strong Evidence Points to China as Cyberhack Source | China News | Epoch Times.
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