{"id":629495,"date":"2021-08-10T12:06:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T16:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=629495"},"modified":"2021-08-10T12:06:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T16:06:27","slug":"china-launched-cyberattacks-against-israel-security-firm-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-launched-cyberattacks-against-israel-security-firm-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"China Launched Cyberattacks Against Israel, Security Firm Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-launched-cyberattacks-against-israel-security-firm-finds%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=629495&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.857142857143\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Chinese state hackers targeted Israeli defense, shipping industries<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Netanyahu-Xi-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"Chinese president Xi Jinping and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2017\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Netanyahu-Xi-736x491.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Netanyahu-Xi-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Netanyahu-Xi-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tChinese president Xi Jinping and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2017 \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 August 10, 2021 12:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"89.686458333333\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">China waged an extended cyber war against Israeli private businesses and government entities in 2019 and 2020, an online security company announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">FireEye, an international cybersecurity firm, said hackers traced back to the Chinese Ministry of State Security targeted Israeli shipping, defense, and tech companies, as well as government servers, in a hacking campaign stretching more than two years. The attacks zeroed in on a vulnerability in SharePoint, a Microsoft collaborative platform popular in the national security industry.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The attacks are only China&#8217;s most recent cyber offensive against another country, but the first of this scale against Israel. Sanaz Yashar, an investigator for FireEye, said the Chinese wanted to obtain communications files and advance their &#8220;Belt and Road Initiative,&#8221; a global infrastructure project to sell its goods worldwide. China invested in Israel as a major node in the project.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;In the Chinese view, it\u2019s legitimate to attack a company while negotiating with it, so they will know how to price the deal properly,&#8221; Yashar <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210809213138if_\/https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/tech-news\/.premium-chinese-cyberattack-targeted-dozens-of-israeli-public-and-private-organizations-1.10102531\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. &#8220;There are a lot of Israeli companies that are involved in the very fields at the core of Chinese interests, as reflected in their five-year plans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Chinese embassy in Israel denied responsibility for the attacks, instead saying China is one of the world\u2019s largest victims of cybercrime.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The FireEye report\u2019s baseless accusations against China on cybersecurity issues are defamation for political purposes,&#8221; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/china-hacks-israel-saudi-to-collect-info-for-tech-business-advances-676326\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> from the embassy reads. &#8220;China is a staunch upholder of cybersecurity. It has always firmly opposed and combated cyber attacks launched within its border or with its network infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The attacks show the mounting aggression from China in cyberspace and a potential fraying of relations between China and Israel. In July, U.S. officials confirmed a massive hack, backed by Beijing, of thousands of Microsoft servers, though the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/biden-administration-wont-sanction-china-for-hacking-u-s-servers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declined<\/a> to sanction any entities involved.<\/p>\n<p>Israel, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/07\/06\/israels-growing-ties-china-are-testing-its-relationship-with-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enjoyed<\/a> stronger relations with Beijing than most Western countries, has increasingly faced anti-Semitic rhetoric from China. In May 2020 and April 2021, Chinese embassies <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/chinese-embassy-posts-anti-semitic-picture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a> a political cartoon depicting a grim reaper <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/chinese-embassy-in-france-tweets-quickly-deletes-anti-semitic-imagery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wearing<\/a> the U.S. flag while brandishing a scythe dripping with blood and bearing Israel&#8217;s flag.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Chinese state hackers targeted Israeli defense, shipping industries  Chinese president Xi Jinping and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2017 \/ Getty Images &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}