Police in Harbin city have claimed that three agents from the US National Security Agency, NSA, carried out “advanced” cyberattacks during the Asian Winter Games in February.
They alleged that the targets were essential industries.
The police have now added the three NSA agents to a wanted
list, while also accusing the University of California and the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University of being involved in the attacks
after conducting investigations, according to a report by state news agency
Xinhua on Tuesday.
It, however, did not specify how the two American
universities were involved.
This development comes as the world’s two largest economies
engage in a trade war.
The report, citing the Harbin city public security bureau,
claimed the US NSA launched cyberattacks “against important industries such as
energy, transportation, water conservancy, communications, and national defence
research institutions in Heilongjiang province.”
It added that the attacks were intended to “sabotage China’s
critical information infrastructure, cause social disorder, and steal important
confidential information.”
Xinhua said the NSA operations were “suspected of activating
specific pre-installed backdoors” in Microsoft Windows operating systems on
certain devices in Heilongjiang.
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