A 10-month cyberespionage investigation has found that 1,295 computers in 103 countries have been spied on. Some circumstantial evidence suggests China may be to blame. The operation probably started around 2004, the time security researchers noticed many of these institutions were being sent bogus e-mail messages with executable files attached to them. Researchers have no confirmation if the information obtained has ended up being valuable to the hackers or whether it has been commercially sold or passed on as intelligence. China has a fifth of the world’s Internet users, which may include hackers with goals aligning with official Chinese positions.”]
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