The computer systems of China’s state departments were infected with American spy-virus. Beijing believes this will negatively affect the difficult biliteral relations, especially in the field of informational security.

In the beginning of July China’s 360 security company that specializes in the Internet security published a report that says about hundreds of national communication systems that were infected with a trojan. The report highlights that program that checked the data correctness input was injected by the NSA and first was discovered in the data base of a Chinese state research institute.

According to the report, the trojan allegedly was installed remotely to the computers with a connection to the Internet and with Windows 98 or later. The virus opens the access to the system and allows to examine all information on that PC to a special NSA department. A special platform named FOXACID was created for that purpose and widely used for cyber attacks against China. Also, the virus carries out a control operation to provide a long-term access to the infected PC.

The competent authorities including National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China carried out an investigation and found a variety of versions of the trojan in many computer systems of the leading research institutes along China. There is a high possibility that virus is still operates in the key governmental data bases, sending the sensitive data to the Pentagon affiliated company.

On the regular briefing for media the official spokesperson of Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zhao Lijian demanded from the US to explain this incident, asking Washington to stop this illegal activity. The diplomat openly named the US “a hacker empire of informational reconnaissance that stealing secrets.” He also emphasized that the United States lately inflated the military budget in this sphere, increased numbers of cyber departments and activity of international cyber exercises. Zhao Lijian presented the 2020 statistics that show more than 42 million cyber attacks against China’s information and communication systems. More than 53% of these attacks came from the territory of the United States.