Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, will visit this week. This is not a critical time for his trip. The cyber conflict is reaching at a tipping point that is Beijing and Washington.
The US government is seething the cyber attack against American target which over increased the originating from China. Two nation are set to move towards the detente. In which the US may adopt retaliatory measures that can be possible for spark or flash point.
Spike in China-based cyber attack against the US.
According to cyber espionage, it has been long for domestic industries and companies. It steals valuable secret trade and economic information.
There are some attacks which have been rising in recent year. The NSA secret document is con covered earlier which revealed in five years. The Chinese hacker conducted more then 600 successful attacks for government network and us cor parted china spies used to attack in October 2014 to spy on Apple I cloud user. The attack follower similar platform to hack previously against service being offered by the big player such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo which involve in intercepting the communication and impersonating the service provider to steal their information.
The computer networks US aviation companies is targeted by the Chinese hacker to steal information related to the military project.
The crosshairs of state-sponsored the Chinese hacker to run afoul of Beijing for the services they provided.
The massive wave of DDS attack against Git Hub pages which belongs to the organization and media banned in China. It also includes overloading a website with fake traffic to prevent it from delivering services to legitimate users.
The OMP hack: the culmination of the cyber attack against the US
The attack brought new climax in April when news broke OVER the intrusion into us office personnel management which resulted in the theft of sensitive and personal data of more than 20 million government employees including employment criminal social security number and financial histories for possible fingerprint data.
The OMP hack is also known the most significant breach in our history which was carried out through the remote access Trojans RATS to obtain over targeted control computer for the use of legitimate and detecting technique OMP were severally criticized without taking the precautionary measure which prevents from attack.
US Government catches up the retaliatory measure
The US traditionally responded to cyber attack through defensive and preventative measures. The daring and escalation of more breaches for the security sector which forced the US government to revise national cybersecurity strategy which is possible for more aggressive actions which escalation tension and spill over the other domains.
Attorney general charged five Chinese militaries in May 2014 with hacking and data theft changes. This was the first time in the US to accused formally for another country involvement in cybercrime. The US declares cyberwar on China, Chinese military hackers charged with trying to steal secret from companies including nuclear energy firm.
The administration Obama has been preparing for the sanction against individuals and companies in China for a cyber-espionage attack against US target. The state government comes into effect after Xi’s visit to Washington.
The cyber war of China and US has dealt with collateral damage in which the US citizen of Chinese descent was arrested on technology theft charges and espionage, but it was released as the dropped charges for the suspicious unfounded.