A Chinese security company revealed a shocking report that says the US Central Intelligence Agency(CIA). UU. It has continuously launched a cyber attack against China between 2008 and 2019.

In these 11 years, the CIA is targeting various industries in China, including aviation organizations, scientific research institutions, the oil industry, Internet companies and government agencies.

The CIA is the US-based government-based Intelligence Agency. UU. Participating in various operations, such as spying on foreign governments, companies and individuals, analyzing the information collected by other agencies, informing the allocation of national intelligence to decision makers in the United States. UU. And more.

IN 2017, we reported on a leak from the most important CIA piracy Arsenal Vault that played an important role in this discovery, in which Wikileaks revealed 8716 documents (including 156 main secret documents) of the "backup" copy of the CIA that contains a detailed record of attack methods, objectives, powerful tools and specifications and technical requirements of the CIA piracy group.

There are 4 pieces of evidence found by Qihoo 360 that reveal that APT-C-39 is affiliated with the CIA.

Evidence 1: APT-C-39 uses massive exclusive cyber weapons in the CIA Vault 7 project.

Evidence 2: The technical details of most of the APT-C-39 samples are consistent with those described in Vault 7 documents.

Evidence 3: Before WikiLeaks revealed the Vault 7 cyber weapon, the APT-C-39 already used relevant cyber weapons against targets in China.

Evidence 4: some of the assault weapons used by APT-C-39 are related to the NSA.

Discovery of APT-C-39 (CIA Hacking Group)

Qihoo 360 researchers delved into leaked documents and discovered that the tools in the Vault 7 Arsenal have been used to make some of the series of selective piracy attacks against Chinese organizations and government agencies.

According to the investigator's report, these attacks are attributed to an APT organization related to the US. UU., APT-C-39, and also discovered that the attackers primarily attacked system developers in Chinese aviation organizations and scientific research sectors to carry out the campaigns.

The CIA (APT-C-39) also accused of attacking the civil aviation technology sectors is not only in China but also involves hundreds of national commercial airlines.

In addition, the researchers believed that during these 11 years, the CIA could have gathered the most classified commercial information from China, including many other countries in the world.

Tracked the key figure of the CIA Cyber   Arsenal R&D

Qihoo 360discovered a Joshua Adam Schulte, a former CIA employee and CIA mastermind Cyber   Arsenal R&D and worked for the National Security Agency (NSA) as an intern for a while, and then joined to the CIA in 2010.

Joshua misused his privilege as administrator of the central secret room and implanted a back door to steal classified documents from Vault 7, which was later disclosed to WikiLeaks, and was published frequently on the WikiLeaks website in 2017.

This is one of the largest leaks of classified national defense information in the history of the CIA ”by revealing the agency's secret piracy tools to WikiLeaks.

Joshua was arrested in 2018 and prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice. UU. And on February 4, 2020, at a public hearing in the federal court, the federal prosecutor alleged that Joshua, as principal developer and responsible for the highest administrative authority of His internal arsenal.