New US hacking tool found, stealing a mass of critical data

The attacks are undifferentiated. In addition to China, US allies are also the targets of NSA's cyberattacks. According to Wikileaks, the US National Security Agency (NSA) spied on French Presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande in 2006-12. In 2013 the NSA was accused of spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel. In 2021, many media outlets say NSA had eavesdropped on Danish underwater internet cables from 2012 to 2014 to spy on top politicians in Germany, Sweden, Norway and France.

According to Chinese security experts, there are six major changes of US cyberattack. First, NSA and CIA has built a large-scale organized cyber army. Second, US attack areas have expanded from computers and information networks to various key information infrastructures for both military and civilian uses. Third, the means of attacks have become diversified, including not only Trojan horses and viruses, but also loopholes, backdoors and counterfeit servers. Fourth, they previously aimed to show off hacking skills or seek industrial or economic interests through illegitimate means, but now they target China's key information infrastructure and major national secrets. Fifth, threats are difficult to prevent in advance and can be found everywhere. Sixth, there have been greater harms. In peacetime, they steal national secrets, while in wartime, they steal information and create turmoil.