US' CYBER WEAPON WAS CLONED & USED BY CHINESE SPIES FOR YEARS: REPORT

Highlights

• As per the report, the US version of the tool was cloned by a Chinese-affiliated attack group labelled APT 31 or Zirconium in the year 2014

• The Check Point said in a blog post that “This means that a Chinese-affiliated group used an Equation Group exploit possibly against American targets.”

• As per researchers, ‘Jian’ was built from the actual sample of the Eq....