McAFEE SAYS CHINA IS BEHIND MASSIVE CYBER ATTACKS!

A massive cyber-espionage attack is underway that targets America, other Western nations and untold numbers of major corporations, a sobering new report revealed.

The report, posted Tuesday night on the blog of online security firm McAfee, details a pattern of organized hacking dating back to 2006.

Some experts speculate China may be behind the extensive cyber threat.

"This is a problem of massive scale that affects nearly every industry and sector of the economies of numerous countries," warns the report's author, Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee's vice president of threat research.

"The only organizations that are exempt from this threat are those that don't have anything valuable or interesting worth stealing."

The report dubbed the attack Operation Shady RAT - for "remote access tool."

Alperovitch said McAfee found at least 72 cyber "compromises" that are believed to be related to the operation - including 49 in the United States, six of which targeted American federal agencies.

McAfee discovered the damning cyber-trail by gaining access to a command and control server involved in the attacks.

"I am convinced that every company in every conceivable industry with significant size and valuable intellectual property and trade secrets has been compromised (or will be shortly)," Alperovitch wrote.

He added that "the great majority of the victims" will rarely learn of "the intrusion or its impact."

McAfee didn't name who or which entity they suspect is behind the attacks. But the company did point out that it found compromises involving the Asian and Western national Olympic committees, the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agency. All happened around the time of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the report noted.

Some analysts who pored over the McAfee report were quick to say where they believe responsibility for the attack may lie.

"You can think of at least three other large programs attributed to China that look very similar," James Lewis, a Washington-based cyber-security expert, told Agence France-Presse.

"It's a pattern of activity that we've seen before. It's in line with other activities."

Google announced in January 2010 that it had come under attack from hackers based in China - but it was not clear if that cyber intrusion is related to the pattern outlined in the McAfee report.

Alperovitch says the 72 attacks McAfee uncovered are just the tip of the iceberg.

"I would like to caution you that what I have described here has been one specific operation conducted by a single actor/group," he wrote.

"We know of many other successful targeted intrusions (not counting cyber-crime-related ones) that we are called in to investigate almost weekly."

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