Unless you’re an IT guru, or someone whose professional duties include protecting computer networks from cyberattacks, you may not have heard of FireEye, a little company specialising in digital warfare.
It reads like a bad spy novel: a secret unit of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is accused of spending the last seven years covertly infiltrating – or hacking – over a hundred large US corporations and stealing terabytes of sensitive data from their computer systems. Unit 61398 of the
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