The Chinese police in Harbin, in the northeast of the country, accused the NSA of launching “advanced” electronic attacks during the Asian Winter Games in February, with the aim of basic industries.
The police added three alleged agents of the National Security Agency to a desired list and also accused of the University of California and Virginia Tech to participate in the attacks after the investigation, according to a report issued by the Xinhua News Agency on Tuesday (15).
The report did not specify how the American universities participated.
However, the report contained a large number of details about the supposed electronic attacks and individuals concerned, and comes at a time when the two largest economies in the world deepen a Trade war Which has already been born with travel alerts for Chinese tourists to the United States and stopped importing American films to China.
The report said: “The US National Security Agency (NSA) launched electronic attacks against important sectors, such as energy, transportation, water, communications, and national defense research in Heilongjiang Province,” noting the Ministry of Public Security in Harbin.
The American embassy in China did not immediately respond to an email sent.
He added that the attacks were “the intention to sabotage the infrastructure of important information in China, and cause social unrest and steal important secret information.”
Xinhua said the NSA operations occurred during the Winter Olympic Games and was “suspected of stimulating pre -installed background devices” on Windows Microsoft operating systems on specific devices of Heilongjiang.
He added that three individuals called him “have repeated and repeated Internet attacks on the infrastructure of important information in China and participated in the Internet attacks on Huawei and other companies.”
OS Often the United States is accused of infiltrators With the support of launching attacks against infrastructure and critical government agencies.
Last month, Washington has announced indictment against a series of alleged Chinese infiltrators They attacked the US Defense Intelligence Agency, the US Department of Commerce, and the foreign ministries in Taiwan, South Korea, India and Indonesia.
Beijing denies any involvement in cybersecurity abroad.
After years, Western governments accused them of electronic attacks and industrial espionage, many Chinese governmental organizations and agencies accused the United States and its behavioral allies.
In December, China claimed that it had identified and dealt with two American Internet attacks against Chinese technology companies to “steal commercial secrets” since May 2023, but it has not revealed the name of the agency in question.
