The US Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a warning to companies and organizations on Wednesday of cyberattacks by people linked with the Chinese government. The advisory, issued privately, contains โinformation they can use to help determine whether their systems have been compromised by these actors and provides steps they can take to mitigate any continuing threats,โ according to an FBI statement.
The FBI on Wednesday issued a private warning to industry that a group of highly skilled Chinese government hackers was in the midst of a long-running campaign to steal valuable data from U.S. companies and government agencies. โThese state-sponsored hackers are exceedingly stealthy and agile by comparison with the Peopleโs Liberation Army Unit 61398 .โ.โ. whose activity was publicly disclosed and attributed by security researchers in February 2013,โ said the FBI in its alert, which referred to a Chinese military hacker unit exposed in a widely publicized report by the security firm Mandiant. Indeed, U.S. officials say privately, the activities of this group are just as significant โ if not more so โ than those of Unit 61398.