Billions of dollars are spending by USA on cyber war with China

According to the head of the FBI, the Chinese hackers special feature is  aggressiveness with the help of which they are trying to crack the security system  of the United States.

China pursues an aggressive cyber war against the United States, which is estimated to cost America billions of dollars. It was said by FBI Director James Comey in the program CBS «60 Minutes» on the 5^th of October,2014. According to him, the American big companies can be divided into two categories: those who had been under cyber attacks from China, and those who do not know about that there are targets of cyber attacks from China.

The FBI Director reminded what  had happened on May this year, a landmark incident, when the American authorities first charged in the industrial cyber espionage five officers of People's Liberation Army (PLA).

Chinese hackers special  features is aggressiveness with which they are trying to crack the security system the United States. Chinese activity in the field of industrial espionage, according to James Komi, is  active because the technology to steal  is much easier and cheaper than creating your own. However, to detect the invasion of Chinese hackers is not difficult, especially since they do not seek to disguise their presence: their strategy - to make it clear that «they are everywhere.»

This year in October , JPMorgan Chase, one of the largest banks in the United States, said that as a result of a hacker attack, which the bank reported two months earlier, the data of 76 million individuals and 7 million businesses was compromised. Then the hackers gained access to names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail account of JPMorgan Chase holders .

United States Treasury Secretary Jack Lew declined to comment this incident with JPMorgan Chase, citing the fact that this situation is not the only or the renewed cause for concern. As the regular meeting of the Minister of Finance with business leaders of the financial sector of the American economy show, cybersecurity issues are under the control of their daily living.

Source : securitylab.ru