Pakistan owes more debt to China than to IMF, World Bank<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nThe U.S. actions \u201cseriously endanger China\u2019s national security,\u201d said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning. She also accused Washington of eavesdropping on Chinese mobile phones and stealing text messages.<\/p>\n
\u201cChina strongly condemns it,\u201d Mao said. \u201cThe United States should immediately stop using its advantages to steal secrets and attack other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n
The American Embassy in Beijing didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
Security experts say the ruling Communist Party\u2019s military wing, the People\u2019s Liberation Army, and the Ministry of State Security also sponsor hackers outside the government.<\/p>\n
Northwestern Polytechnical University, in the western city of Xi\u2019an, is on a U.S. government \u201centity list\u201d that limits its access to American technology. Washington says the university helps the PLA develop aerial and underwater drones and missile technology.<\/p>\n
Monday\u2019s announcement accused the United States of taking information about the university\u2019s network management and other \u201ccore technologies.\u201d It said Chinese analysts found 41 \u201cnetwork attack\u201d tools that it said were traced to the NSA.<\/p>\n
Last year, a Chinese man, Shuren Qin, was sentenced to two years in prison by a federal court in Boston after he pleaded guilty to exporting underwater and marine technology to Northwestern Polytechnical University without required licenses.<\/p>\n
The NSA, part of the Department of Defense, is responsible for \u201csignals intelligence,\u201d or obtaining communications and other data.<\/p>\n
The Computer Virus Emergency Response Center, set up in 1996 by the police department of the eastern city of Tianjin, describes itself as the Chinese agency responsible for inspection and testing of anti-computer virus products.<\/p>\n
A report by Qihoo 360 in 2020 said hacking tools used in attacks on Chinese companies and government agencies in 2008-19 were traced to the Central Intelligence Agency by comparing them with code in CIA tools disclosed by the Wikileaks group.<\/p>\n
The virus center accused the NSA of carrying out other \u201cmalicious network attacks\u201d in China but gave no details. It said 13 people involved in the attacks had been identified.<\/p>\n
The hackers targeted a \u201czero day,\u201d or previously unreported, vulnerability in the school\u2019s security, the statement said. It said the break-ins were conducted from servers in 17 countries including Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Poland, Ukraine and Colombia.<\/p>\n
The statement described what it said were NSA software tools with names such as \u201cSecond Date\u201d and \u201cDrinking Tea\u201d but didn\u2019t say which might have been used at the university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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