China hacked Norwegian software firm Visma to steal client secrets
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cyber-norway-visma/china-hacked-norways-visma-to-steal-client-secrets-investigators-idUSKCN1PV141
LONDON (Reuters) - Hackers working on behalf of Chinese intelligence breached the network of Norwegian software firm Visma to steal secrets from its clients, cyber security researchers said, in what a company executive described as a potentially catastrophic attack.
The attack was part of what Western countries said in December is a global hacking campaign by China’s Ministry of State Security to steal intellectual property and corporate secrets, according to investigators at cyber security firm Recorded Future.
China’s Ministry of State Security has no publicly available contacts. The foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment, but Beijing has repeatedly denied any involvement in cyber-enabled spying.
Visma took the decision to talk publicly about the breach to raise industry awareness about the hacking campaign, which is known as Cloudhopper and targets technology service and software providers in order reach their clients.
I'm terrified of the influence China has gained on Norwegian data as of the past couple of years. nothing good will come out of it.
Fuck off China.
China should be cut off from the global network if they can't keep it in their pants tbh.
They cut themselves off, but their agents get let out. The only ways to stop China are not pretty.
Reverse Great Frewall
Tbh I think more services should just blacklist china as a whole, may make then realise that being totally hostile to everyone is not the best idea...
DO SOMETHING ABOUT CHINA ALREADY
I'm terrified of China as a whole.
I know loads of stuff are just tinfoil hat stuff, but then we hear stuff like this and we don't know if the tinfoil is real or not.
There's too much money to pass it up.
A third world war?
No but China would rather take everything it can financially hostage before playing nice.
Just recognise Taiwan as China
that'll never happen.... everyone just simply... LOVE china...
They may not LOVE China, but they pretty much have to play ball. China's markets are simply too tasty for large corporations that bought and paid for western politicians.
This is not good... i'm an intern at a place where we use this software.. and we work with china.
I got the mock up boss
https://i.imgur.com/ZBnxlxJ.png
It's fool proof.
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