China’s main internal security and police university is training
hackers for cyber attacks, according to new information obtained by the
U.S. government.
The People’s Public Security University in Beijing, a part of the
Ministry of Public Security that trains all of China’s police and
internal security troops, has several units engaged in training and
operations for cyber attacks.
One section of the school was identified last month as a key training
center for police network attack operations: The Network Attack and
Defense Laboratory. The lab uses Chinese software that was identified
last year by officials as designed for training cyber warfare operators
and spies.
Disclosure of the police training unit for Chinese hackers follows
several U.S. reports made public last year that identified China’s
primary military hacking force as Unit 61398, located near Shanghai.
Another Chinese school, Wuhan University, also has been linked by U.S. intelligence agencies to cyber attacks against the West.
Chinese cyber attacks against the United States have been carried out
on a large scale since the early 2000s. The attacks have been detected
against both government and private sector networks and have involved
the loss of defense and commercial secrets as well as the potential for
future sabotage in a crisis or conflict.
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