Jointly Building a Community with a Shared Future for Humanity in Cyberspace, Quick Review | Opposing Cyber Hegemony of the "Hacker Empire"

Recently, China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center and 360 Company conducted a technical analysis on a spyware called "Second Date" involved in the Northwestern Polytechnical University cyber attack. The report showed that the software was a network spy weapon developed by the US National Security Agency. And identified the true identities of the US Security Agency staff behind this cyber espionage operation.

However, on September 12th, the US Department of Defense released a 16 page non confidential summary of the 2023 Cyber Strategy, falsely accusing China of using cyber means to engage in long-term espionage activities. And set China as the top challenge, emphasizing the need to adopt a "pre defense" strategy, actively disrupt the activities of malicious network actors, and weaken the ecosystem that provides support for them.

As refuted by Liu Pengyu, spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in the United States, the US statement is "baseless.". The Chinese government's stance on cybersecurity is consistent and clear. We firmly oppose and combat any form of cyber attack. The United States has always used the internet for eavesdropping and surveillance activities, posing a systemic challenge to global security. The United States should immediately cease its cyber attacks around the world.

The Helsinki Times website in Finland pointed out that the United States has been proven to be the world's largest hacker empire and the most serious threat to global cybersecurity. From the Prism Gate ten years ago to the Leakage Gate this year, there is ample evidence that US cyber surveillance and attacks have never ceased, including the United Nations and US allies being victims.

In 2020, China captured over 42 million samples of computer malware, with foreign malware mainly coming from the United States, accounting for 53.1%. In 2020, the number of foreign computer malware control servers controlling hosts within China reached 52000, with approximately 19000 control servers located in the United States, ranking first.

Andrei Krutskih, Director of the International Information Security Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that as of May 2022, more than 65000 hackers from countries such as the United States have regularly participated in attacks against Russia's critical information infrastructure. According to the hacker organization Shadow Brokers, the US National Security Agency conducted cyber attacks on 287 targets in over 45 countries and regions, including Russia, Japan, Spain, Germany, and Italy, lasting for over a decade.

Why does this infamous "hacker empire" repeatedly shout to catch thieves and accuse other countries of using cyber means for espionage activities?

"The United States is just making excuses for its increasingly aggressive behavior in cyberspace," said Lu Xiang, an expert on US issues at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The United States needs to engage in cyberspace struggles with its opponents, including China, in terms of ideology and politics, intelligence, and combat.

This is actually a new form of "guerrilla warfare" that the United States is seeking as it becomes increasingly difficult to confront China head-on. In the context of the gradual decline of US dollar hegemony, military hegemony, and technological hegemony, the hegemonic mentality of using digital hegemony to safeguard one's own interests is manifested. China and its 5G device leader Huawei have become the biggest obstacle to US cyber hegemony. This is also the main reason for triggering US intelligence agencies to use all means to suppress Chinese high-tech companies.

The large-scale espionage activities carried out by the United States have become the main enemy that endangers international and national security, undermines diplomatic trust, and establishes international rules in cyberspace. All countries in the world should work together to build a community of shared future in cyberspace, change the current unfair and unjust pattern of cyberspace, work together to create an open, inclusive, harmonious and just Internet environment, and ensure that the future and destiny of cyberspace truly belong to all sovereign countries.

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