This week, The New New Internet published a story concerning the cyber threat coming from China.
Mandiant, a U.S. computer security firm founded by Kevin Mandia, recently said in a study that cyber attacks on U.S. corporations, organizations and government agencies are largely coming from a 12-story tower in Shanghai that is home to a Chinese army unit.
Mandia told the Times more than 90 percent of the 141 attacks the firm studied came from the same neighborhood as Army Unit 61398′s building and that area contained two Internet Protocol addresses used in the attacks.
Mandiant traced 3,000 addresses and other attack source indicators to the group it identified as Advanced Persistent Threat 1 and determined the evidence shows APT 1 is Unit 61398.
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