Chinese hackers may have spied on S-E Asia, India since 2005

London

HACKERS, most likely from China, have been spying on governments and businesses in South-east Asia and India uninterrupted for a decade, researchers at Internet security company FireEye Inc said.

In a report released on Monday, FireEye said that the cyber espionage operations dated back to at least 2005 and "focused on targets - government and commercial - who hold key political, economic and military information about the region". "Such a sustained, planned development effort coupled with the (hacking) group's regional targets and mission, lead us to believe that this activity is state-sponsored - most likely the Chinese government," the report's authors said.