{"id":236922,"date":"2025-10-19T19:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/236922\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:05:07","slug":"china-accuses-united-states-of-cyber-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/236922\/","title":{"rendered":"China accuses United States of &#8216;cyber espionage&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Oct. 19 (UPI) &#8212; China on Sunday accused the United States of espionage against the country&#8217;s top time center, which China said could seriously impact the orderly functioning of its society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">China&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3329558\/china-accuses-us-carrying-out-cyberattacks-national-time-centre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:top counter-espionage agency;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">top counter-espionage agency<\/a>, the Ministry of State Security, said the U.S. National Security Agency is responsible for a series of cyberattacks on the Chinese National Time Services Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Chinese Ministry of State Security made the accusation via a social media post Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Based in Xian, Shaanxi province, the time center is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is responsible for generating and disseminating the country&#8217;s standard time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It also provides the precise time for China&#8217;s communications, finance, power, transportation, mapping and defense systems. The U.S. embassy in China did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">China <a href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/ZtKjlaIoMVCSY-rXt2RP1Q\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said in a statement Sunday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said in a statement Sunday<\/a> that the attacks were &#8220;long-tem, highly covert, and employed state-level cyberespionage tools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">China alleged that the NSA exploited a security flaw in time center software, allowing it to seize control of foreign-brand phones used by several of the center&#8217;s employees, and gain access to sensitive data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">China said the NSA began targeting vulnerable cellphones in March 2022 to steal login credentials and other information and, starting in April 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/global.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/202510\/19\/WS68f48043a310f735438b5c8e.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:used the information;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">used the information<\/a> to gain access to the sensitive time center data and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Chinese security officials said the NSA carried out its cyberattacks during late-night hours in Beijing via private servers in the United States, Europe and Asia to hide activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Chinese investigation also alleged the United States forged digital certificates to bypass security, and used encryption algorithms to erase evidence of their presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 19 (UPI) &#8212; China on Sunday accused the United States of espionage against the country&#8217;s top time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,144,131083,131084,131082,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-236922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-china","tag-cyber-espionage","tag-ministry-of-foreign-affairs","tag-ministry-of-state-security","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}