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Hacked: Google admitted that hundreds of Gmail accounts had been targeted by hackers in China, including those of senior U.S. officials
White House staff among those targeted by scam
Hillary Clinton warns threat is 'very serious'
U.S. asks China to investigate, though Beijing denies being behind attack
China accuses U.S. of being culprit in 'internet war'
Pentagon warn U.S. may retaliate with military force
Hackers also target military contractor that supplies unmanned aerial vehicles
Fears of a 'cyber war' with China intensified today as it emerged White House employees are among hundreds of U.S. officials who have had their passwords stolen by Chinese hackers.
The security threat, which is likely to have been an attempt by the Chinese to spy on official U.S. correspondence, comes as Hillary Clinton warned the allegations were 'very serious'.
Experts suspect Chinese hackers are capable of reducing the U.S. to stone-age conditions at the press of a button – by crippling the computers running everything from banks and supermarkets to power stations and water plants.
The security breach was revealed by Google which said victims had been carefully targeted in a scam to steal passwords traced to the city of Jinan in the Communist state’ s Shangdong province.
The U.S. government will not reveal who has been targeted by the 'phishing' attacks but admitted they included senior administration officials.
President Obama's administration insists no official email accounts were hacked into by the Chinese but there remains the possibility that official business was being discussed on employees' personal emails.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security are now investigating with Google's help.
Darrell Issa, Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told the Wall Street Journal 'If all White House officials were following rules prohibiting the use of personal email for official business, there would simply be no sensitive information to find.
'Unfortunately, we know that not everyone at the White House follows those rules and that creates an unnecessary risk.'
Threatened: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the allegations were 'very serious'
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the allegations as 'very serious'.
She added that the US was 'very concerned about Google’s announcement regarding a campaign that the company believes originated in China to collect the passwords of Google e-mail account holders'.
Log in: Hackers stole passwords by creating an almost identical Gmail homepage
In a chilling echo of the Cold War, a ‘cyber arms race’ is rapidly developing between East and West, with the U.S. even threatening to retaliate with military weapons to any ‘act of war’ attack on its computers from a foreign power.
Earlier this week the U.S. said it would react militarily to future cyber incursions from other countries.
One U.S. military official was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying: ‘If you shut down our power grid, maybe we will put a missile down one of your smokestacks.’
Today the U.S.asked Beijing to investigate Google's allegation after the Chinese denied any central involvement in the scam.
'We did raise our concerns with the Chinese about the allegations and asked them to take a look into them,' State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.
Toner declined to provide details on what was conveyed to the Chinese, or whether the U.S. government believes Beijing may have had a hand in the alleged hacking attack.
'We take them seriously and expressed that concern to the Chinese,' he added.
Meanwhile, the Chinese military accused the U.S. of launching a global 'Internet war' to bring down Arab and other governments, in an attempt to shift attention away from themselves.
Writing in the Communist Party-controlled China Youth Daily newspaper, the scholars did not mention Google's claims, but said recent computer attacks and the use of the Internet to promote regime change in Arab nations were sparked by the U.S. government.
'Of late, an Internet tornado has swept across the world ... massively impacting and shocking the globe. Behind all this lies the shadow of America,' the article, signed by Ye Zheng and Zhao Baoxian, scholars with the Academy of Military Sciences, read.
'Faced with this warmup for an Internet war, every nation and military can't be passive but is making preparations to fight the Internet war.'
Although there is no direct evidence that the Chinese hackers in the latest case are in the pay of the Chinese government, their attacks were so sophisticated and highly-targeted that few experts doubt they were state-sponsored.
Apart from anything else, unlike other internet scams, there was no obvious financial gain behind them, suggesting a sinister rather than a financial motive.
Threat: The Pentagon said it is ready to retaliate against cyber attacks
Defence: The Pentagon will reclassify cyber attacks as an aggressive act if it causes the equivalent loss of life or damage to infrastructure as a conventional military attack
Senior U.S. and South Korean government officials who fell victim to the scam were tricked into giving away their Google and Yahoo email login details.
They had received ‘Trojan horse’ emails that purported to be from someone they knew, but were in fact carefully-crafted fakes.
One example email had the title: ‘Fw: Draft US-China Joint Statement’, and contained the text: ‘This is the latest version of State’s joint statement.’
Enticed into opening the email, the unsuspecting user was directed to a convincing but bogus Google or Yahoo email page where they were invited to type in their login and password. When they did so, their supposedly-secret details immediately fell into the hands of the Chinese hackers.
Armed with the passwords, the hackers could access the user’s real email account and spy on genuine emails being sent between government officials.
Although the scam – which went on for months before being uncovered – targeted personal email accounts, rather than government accounts, officials could have forwarded their work emails to their personal Gmail accounts.
A Google spokesman said yesterday: ‘Google detected and has disrupted this campaign to take users’ passwords and monitor their emails. We have notified victims and secured their accounts.’
SOURCE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1394036/China-targeted-Whit...
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