Chinese hackers invading Japanese defense networks may affect the sharing of informati

(Washington Composite Electric) American media reported that Chinese hackers have invaded the Japanese defense network, which not only alarms the United States, but also affects the sharing of information on the United States and Japan.

The Washington Post quotes three former US senior officials that the US National Security Agency discovered in the fall of 2020 that Chinese military hackers invaded the Japanese secret defense network and obtained the "in -depth and persistent" access rights.Let go, including the Japanese military's plan, ability, and defect assessment.

After three years, a former U.S. officer recalled the matter, "This is bad, and the bad is shocking."

At that time, the United States was deeply disturbed and immediately dispatched the then Director of the US National Security Agency, Zhong Gen and the White House deputy country consultant Bolness, to Tokyo, and reported to the Japanese Defense Minister and Prime Minister's most destructive hacker attack in the modern history of Japan.

Japan was shocked and said that it would investigate the matter further, but later some US officials felt that the Japanese side did not face the problem of hackers, but it was expected that the problem would gradually disappear.

At that time, the then President Trump was busy challenging the results of the presidential election, and officials were busy preparing to hand in work. After early 2021, after the Bayeng government took office, the US Internet security and national defense officials found that the problem deteriorated. Chinese hackers were still in the same way.L forces in the Japanese defense network.

Under the supervision of the United States after Japan, the Internet Battle Command was established 24 hours of monitoring networks. At the same time, it strengthened online security training. It plans to invest at US $ 7 billion (about 9.4 billion yuan) in the next five years to improve network security and will make the military network.The security team expands four times to 4,000 people.

The United States also proposed to send a "online detective" team to Japan to assist Japan to evaluate the degree of hackers' invasion and eliminate Chinese malware in the Japanese defense network.However, the Japanese side is vigilant about letting other countries enter its network. In the end, the two parties reached a compromise plan. First, the Japanese company evaluated the network vulnerability, and then the team of the US National Security Agency and the Internet Command reviewed the results.Proposal of vulnerabilities.At the same time, national security and national defense personnel of the two countries regularly hold technical exchanges and video call meetings to grasp the latest progress of the problem.

However, by the fall of 2021, the new information obtained by the United States shows that the attack on the Japanese defense network of China has fiercely, while the Japanese have almost no progress in the anti -blocking network vulnerability.

Austin: U.S. -Japan data sharing or slowing due to network security

U.S. officials said that although Japan has taken steps to strengthen network security, in the face of Chinese hackers, these efforts are still insufficient and may affect the information sharing of the United States and Japan.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Austin shows that if Japan cannot strengthen network security, data sharing that the United States and Japan must strengthen in order to start advanced military operations may slow down.

Japan is unwilling to confirm whether it was attacked by Chinese hackers as reported by the media and theft of defense information.The Japanese Defense Director Hamada Tuesday (August 8) said that he would not comment on individual network attacks and processing methods.He said: "We have not confirmed the confidential information of the Ministry of Defense, whether it was leaked by network attacks."

He also refused to answer whether there was an invasion, only to say, "If it is said, this will expose the ability of the defense official and the self -defense force to respond to cyber attacks."The Japanese side is very worried that if you do not do a good job of confidentiality, he will be unspeal as the most capable of secrets in Asia in Asia, which will affect the sharing of Japanese and American intelligence.