Has China ever complained of similar targeted malware attacks against its networks?
But of course. In 2008 China declined to comment the source of similar cyber espionage attacks hitting their “core networks” but pointed out that 80% of the hosts involved were based in the United States. Does this automatically mean that U.S based cyber warriors are behind the cyber espionage attempt? Not necessarily, since compromised hosts has been used as stepping stones (island hopping) can easily make it look like the compromised country’s hosts actually belong to the physical attacker himself. Cyber espionage activities courtesy of different nations continue making the headlines every on a regular basis. For instance, in 2008 South Korean Army officers were hit with North Korean spyware, and German spooks admitted using a “trojan horse” to spy on Afghan politician and SPIEGEL journalist again in 2008. One thing remains certain, even if Google leaves the Chinese Internet market, it would still remain vulnerable to the very same threats that each and every enterprise connected to
