http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/world/asia/chinese-hackers-resume-attacks-on-us-targets.html
By DAVID E. SANGER and NICOLE PERLROTH
The New York Times
May 19, 2013
WASHINGTON -- Three months after hackers working for a cyberunit of China’s
People’s Liberation Army went silent amid evidence that they had stolen data
from scores of American companies and government agencies, they appear to have
resumed their attacks using different techniques, according to computer
industry security experts and American officials.
The Obama administration had bet that “naming and shaming” the groups, first in
industry reports and then in the Pentagon’s own detailed survey of Chinese
military capabilities, might prompt China’s new leadership to crack down on the
military’s highly organized team of hackers — or at least urge them to become
more subtle.
But Unit 61398, whose well-guarded 12-story white headquarters on the edges of
Shanghai became the symbol of Chinese cyberpower, is back in business,
according to American officials and security companies.
It is not clear precisely who has been affected by the latest attacks.
Mandiant, a private security company that helps companies and government
agencies defend themselves from hackers, said the attacks had resumed but would
not identify the targets, citing agreements with its clients. But it did say
the victims were many of the same ones the unit had attacked before.
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