Ricercatori univerrsitari di Toronto hanno scoperto una operazione di spionaggio internazionale su vasta scala finalizzata a infiltrare 1295 computer per derubarli di importanti documenti.
Molti di questi appartenevano ad aziende e ad enti governativi localizzati in Asia
Il fatto che il sistema di controllo dell’operazione fosse per la maggior parte in Cina e che la ricerca sia partita da una richiesta dei diplomatici tibetani,a cui non quadravano i conti su una eccessiva frequenza di infezioni informatiche, fa pensare che il governo di Pechino non sia proprio “del tutto al di fuori della vicenda”, anche se sul tema i ricercatori canadesi sono cauti.
La mappa dei computer attaccati
A vast electronic spying operation has infiltrated computers and has stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama, Canadian researchers have concluded.
…In a report to be issued this weekend, the researchers said that the system was being controlled from computers based almost exclusively in China, but that they could not say conclusively that the Chinese government was involved.
The researchers, who are based at the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto, had been asked by the office of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader whom China regularly denounces, to examine its computers for signs of malicious software, or malware.
Their sleuthing opened a window into a broader operation that, in less than two years, has infiltrated at least 1,295 computers in 103 countries, including many belonging to embassies, foreign ministries and other government offices, as well as the Dalai Lama’s Tibetan exile centers in India, Brussels, London and New York.