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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Singapore Asia Pacific World Google attacks spotlight global cyber espionage AFP - Sunday, January 17 Send IM Story Print Google attacks spotlight global cyber espionage Slideshow: Full Photo Coverage: Business & Economy WASHINGTON (AFP) - – Cyberattacks on Google and other firms are part of a shadowy campaign in cyberspace being waged by China and other nations which goes largely undetected, according to Web security experts and analysts. "China is not the only place to engage in this kind of espionage, but they are certainly busy," said James Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) here. "They're probably the biggest actors when it comes to economic espionage," Lewis said, and the hacking of Google and more than 30 other firms "fits in with all the complaints you've heard about intellectual property and piracy." Web security firm McAfee said in its "Virtual Criminology Report" released in November that China, France, Israel, Russia and the United States were among the countries which have developed "advanced offensive cyber capabilities." "China's at the top of the list," Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of threat research for McAfee, told AFP. "They have great focus on espionage activities and penetration of organizations. "They've been very successful in penetrating the US government in a variety of ways in recent years and exfiltrating valuable classified data about ongoing military operations, military hardware specs, that sort of thing," he said. While stressing McAfee had "no proof" the Chinese government was directly behind the attack on Google, Alperovitch said "there are indications though that a nation-state is behind it." "It fits the pattern of a very sophisticated cyber espionage program that's been underway for years," said CSIS's Lewis, that involves "more than just the Chinese government. "There's probably a centrally directed program, an espionage program," he said. "But there's other people who do it as freelancers, or companies do it, or ministries do it. "There was GhostNet about a year ago, which was a Chinese effort to look at computers around the world," he said. "There was an effort in 2007 to look at defense, energy, commerce, NASA, there were efforts before that targeted at defense." Ronald Deibert, director of Citizen Lab at the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto, agreed that Chinese-based hackers are by no means the only ones probing the computer networks of business and political rivals around the world. "It's not just China that's doing it although China's very aggressive," said Deibert, an author of the GhostNet report, which uncovered a China-based network that had compromised 1,295 government and private computers in 103 countries including those of the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. "There is a real arms race in cyberspace going on," he said. "Espionage attacks that we've seen that seem to come from mainland China are consistent with China's strategic doctrine in this area and also consistent with what a lot of other countries are proposing to do in this area," he said. "For example, if you look at the United States, the director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, said that we need to be more aggressive stealing other countries secrets," Deibert said. "In (President Barack) Obama's cybersecurity review, among the things that were underlined was the need to develop operational capabilities to fight and win wars in cyberspace including cyber espionage attacks of this sort." Web security experts and analysts interviewed by AFP said it is almost impossible to prove who is behind a particular cyberattack and noted that companies rarely come forward and admit that they have been targeted. "We've conducted a three-year research project on surveillance and one of the things we've learned is how absolutely very difficult it is to study," said Colin Maclay, managing director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. "Anyone will tell you that with properly conducted surveillance you can't catch it," Maclay said. "You just don't know." "Google did us a favor by coming out of the closet," said CSIS's Lewis. "Most companies won't do it." Only one other company, Adobe, has acknowledged it was targeted in the attack which Google said originated from China and was an apparent bid for computer source codes, intellectual property, and information about China human rights activists around the world. While the probing of Google's computer systems was "not unusual," said Citizen Lab's Deibert, what was extraordinary was their "public response." "And the response they took was quite provocative," he said of Google's decision to no longer censor Internet search results in China and threat to potentially shut down their operations in the world's largest online market. 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