British MI 5 spun up ＂China spies＂ to throw dirty water at China.

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　　Jonathan Evans, the head of MI5, sent a secret letter to 300 business executives. (AFP information pictures, without authorization, may not be reproduced! )

　　Xinhua newsThe British Times website published an article on December 1st, and MI5 issued a warning about "cyber espionage in China". The following is the original text.

　　　　The British government has publicly accused China of spying on key sectors of the British economy, including illegally hacking into the computer systems of big banks and financial services companies.

　　　　Jonathan Evans, the head of MI5 (British Security Service), sent a secret letter to 300 general managers and security directors of banks, accounting firms and law firms, warning that they had been violated by "China state institutions". It is believed that this is the first time that the government directly accused China of being suspected of cyber espionage. Jonathan Evans’s blunt warning may have serious diplomatic consequences and cast a shadow over Gordon Brown’s first official visit to China as prime minister early next year.

　　　　This newspaper has obtained a copy of the summary of this warning letter, which the government posted on a secure website. According to the summary, Evans wrote to the heads of British business circles to remind them of electronic espionage attacks.

　　　　The British media has been hyping up China cyber hackers recently. The Financial Times reported the so-called "China hacker attack on the US Department of Defense", saying that the United States called the increasing hacking attack in China "Titan Rain"; The British "Guardian" said on the front page that China hackers attacked the computer networks of important departments of the British government, and also quoted experts as saying that similar attacks had been "at least four years"; The British "Daily Telegraph" even speculated without foundation that hackers connected with China’s military "infiltrated the computer networks of various departments of the British government".

　　　　Jin Canrong, a professor at the School of International Studies at Renmin University of China, analyzed the background of the British media’s hype, saying that the hype about hacking in China, like the so-called environmental problems and food safety problems in China, is a manifestation of concern about the development of China.

　　　　The abstract posted on the website of the National Infrastructure Protection Center said: "The main content of this letter is as follows: The director of MI5 is worried that the electronic attacks supported by China’s state agencies will cause damage to British enterprises, and that the purpose of these attacks is to defeat the best implementation of IT security systems."

　　　　The website also said: "This letter acknowledges that there are sufficient economic and commercial reasons for doing business with China, but it is also necessary to control risks."

　　　　Only institutions belonging to key infrastructure in the UK (including telecommunications companies, banks and hydropower companies) can access the website of the National Infrastructure Protection Center. The document warned that British companies doing business in China were targeted by China’s army, which used the Internet to steal confidential business information.

　　　　Last night, the Ministry of the Interior refused to comment on what it said was the leak of secret communication. A spokesman for China’s embassy in London said that he was not aware of these allegations and that the embassy had not received any complaints from Britain.

　　　　Martin Jordan, one of the chief consultants of KPMG, read this letter. He said: "If Chinese knows that a British company wants to buy assets such as companies or land in China, they will try their best to find out all kinds of details, such as how much the British company intends to spend to buy this asset."

　　　　It is understood that a large European engineering company and an oil company have been under the surveillance of China and leaked recently. A source familiar with MI5′ s warning letter said that the known attacks were not limited to large companies located in the business district of London. He said that in the business district of London, only a small number of law firms and other companies whose businesses are related to China have also been detected by China.

　　　　A security expert who read the letter said, "The technologies used by China’s intelligence agencies include’ customized Trojans’, which can sneak into a company’s network and feed back confidential data. The letter from MI 5 includes a series of known "marks" that can be used to identify the Trojan horse in China, as well as the known websites used to launch attacks. "　

　　　　A large-scale study released this week warned that the computer systems of the British government and military are under constant attack from China and other countries. Earlier, the US Congress received a report that China’s espionage activities were extremely widespread in the United States, which was "the biggest threat to the technical security of the United States".

　　　　Ian Brown of Oxford University, one of the authors of the report, said that these attacks, which date back to China, tried to crack the code of Whitehall. According to the report, China is the most active country in Internet espionage, but 120 other countries are also using the same technology.

　　　　According to the National Infrastructure Protection Center, cyber attacks pose a great threat to Britain.

　　Trojan horse has entered the computer door.

　　　　The guiding principle of anti-espionage work is that when your "enemies" become more advanced, you must be one step ahead of them, especially when faced with electronic threats.

　　　　Chinese and Russians are now very good at breaking into other people’s computer networks, so MI5 has to issue warnings to various government departments and defense enterprises, asking them to take extra precautions to protect the most confidential information.

　　　　Jonathan Evans, who served as the director of MI5 in April this year, told his men that although anti-terrorism was still his top priority, he could not forget the threat posed by espionage, especially by China and Russia. In his first public speech last month, he mentioned the spy attacks carried out by China and Russia.

　　　　At present, it is difficult to find out the exact source of these attacks, and technicians from MI5 and government communications headquarters can often trace them to the Far East. These attacks usually focus on individuals who deal with confidential business or economic information at work.

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Editor: Li Xiuwei