China’s cyber war on the West is escalating
The TelegraphThe latest hack in the UK to be blamed on Beijing – of the Ministry of Defence’s payroll, including sensitive details on military personnel – is deeply embarrassing for the Government and shows nowhere is safe from Chinese cyber hacking. China’s ministry of state security has developed sophisticated cyber hacking operations that rival Western intelligence agencies. In a further example of officials blowing the lid off Chinese espionage, in March Britain publicly blamed Xi Jinping’s regime for targeting the Electoral Commission watchdog and for being behind a campaign of online “reconnaissance” aimed at the email accounts of MPs and peers. APT stands for “advanced persistent threat” and is a naming convention used by Western cyber intelligence agencies to identify hacking groups linked to foreign adversaries.