WikiLeaks released a new batch of documents revealing CIA moves to hack servers owned by Cisco and Chinese companies. (Photo : Getty Images)
The Chinese government is concerned over the latest WikiLeaks dump revealing that the CIA is hacking into companies in the country.
Upon release of the information, many companies rushed to update their firewalls and security protocol because of the extent of the CIA's activities.
WikiLeaks reported that the CIA can now hack into many devices to get confidential information. The report said that American intelligence is targeting Silicon Valley companies like Cisco.
Cisco's Chinese suppliers are ZTE and Huawei from the mainland and the Taiwanese company Zyxel. Wikileaks reported that the CIA can even hack into routers manufactured in China.
In a statement, the whistleblower said that the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal.
According to China's foreign ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang, "We urge the U.S. side to stop listening in, monitoring, stealing secrets and internet hacking against China and other countries."
He added, "The Chinese side is firmly committed to safeguarding its cyber security and is ready to enhance dialogue and cooperation with the international community to lay down a set of universally acceptable rules governing the cyberspace within the UN framework, and build a peaceful, secure, open, cooperative and orderly cyberspace through joint efforts."
The spokesperson said that China is concerned about the extent of the CIA's capability to hack into networks of Chinese companies and compromising internal information.
The marketing director of a Beijing-based security company, Rising, Tang Wei, said, "The American cyberwar machine has been operating under the hood and it is very difficult for an outsider to get a glimpse of what happens inside an operation center."
He added, "These documents revealed the tip of an iceberg."
Tang also suspects that the CIA had to hire Chinese-speaking programmers to be able to penetrate Chinese networks which mixed programming language and texts in Mandarin.
The WikiLeaks documents said that even social media site Sino Weibo is also hacked. The agency refused to release a comment.
