Kibervzlomschiki People’s Republic of China have increased the number of attacks on Russian strategic facilities.
The threat, in an interview with Bloomberg praised the officer “Kaspersky Lab” Alexander Gostev. According to him, if for the whole 2015 was recorded 72 cases when they were attacked including enterprises of the defense, nuclear and aviation industries of the Russian Federation, for the first seven months of 2016 – already 194
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At the same time cybercriminals have used more than 50 kinds of Trojans. Total “Laboratory” counted 35 attacks on Russian organizations, including seven plants of the defense-industrial complex for the production of missiles, radar and navigational equipment, the five ministries, four airlines and two in the field of nuclear energy structure.
The number of attacks can be higher in reality. According to the expert, in the defense industry is “almost all” of the enterprise.
As previously wrote the SC Magazine, it has been recorded attacks from China against the company “Uralvagonzavod” and “Helicopters of Russia”. Also, the publication wrote about the work of the Ministry of Defense and the FSB anti-virus NetTraveler, supposedly created in China.
Active Chinese hackers has increased after in September, Beijing and Washington signed an agreement to waive economic cyber espionage. A similar agreement is valid between Beijing and Moscow, but, according to Gostev, it does not hold in practice.
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