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Introduction
We all know very well that today China is the second most powerful state in the world and it is likely that it will soon overtake the United States. Personally, I have mostly positive emotions about this country. I've met a lot of Chinese people in my life, and I can assure you that each of them was a very friendly and well-mannered person. This is an exceptional achievement of the Chinese Communist Party, which for many years not only provides the highest level of culture and discipline in society, but also actively builds a market economy, no matter how paradoxical it may sound.
A little more than ten years ago, there was a rather large international scandal. Thousands of computers in different parts of the world were infected and compromised. And as you might have guessed, these were far from ordinary people's eyes.
Mostly, the victims of hacking were diplomats from various countries, most of them from Southeast Asia. Their computers were connected to a secret network under the sinister name "GhostNet". Chinese hackers used it to spy on 1,295 devices in more than 100 countries around the world.
How did the network work?
The method of gaining access to other people's computers at that time may seem a little trivial to us today, but at that time it was quite fresh and effective. Hackers pretended to be a public organization and sent emails to the right people with a file attached to them. The file was originally designed in the form of a regular brochure, but of course there was a Trojan embedded in it.
Although the direct involvement of the Chinese authorities in the creation of the network has not been proven, some facts suggest this idea still exist. First, the attackers mainly took cars that were physically located in China, Taiwan, Vietnam, India, and Hong Kong. Secondly, most of the hacking victims were somehow involved in the political situation in Tibet.
