Italy’s domestic intelligence service recently reported that organized teams of Chinese hackers were burglarizing the PCs of Western firms to pilfer fashion ideas and counterfeit them ahead of the actual articles can strike the streets.
Gnosis, a magazine by Italy’s SISDE counterintelligence agency was reported to have said,
Platoons of seasoned, unscrupulous cyber pirates, crackers and hackers of every kind ... make up an exponentially growing and unstoppable army.
The article claims that in so far as 20% of Internet viruses and spam messages that wedge e-mails worldwide started off in China. It claims that Chinese hackers get a lot out of pornography, comprising sites that put up for sale videos for pedophiles and traffic in date rape-drugs, heroin and counterfeit medicines.
