News Analysis Australia discovered Huawei’s cyber spying in about 2012 and informed the United States, according to a new Bloomberg News investigation. The Aussie discovery started a long process of investigating and finding Huawei hacks in other countries. The result: a too-quiet information campaign against the company’s attempts to monopolize the world’s wireless networks, from 2G to 5G. But the campaign failed to alert the public early and does not address China’s deeper links to European telecom companies such as Nokia and Ericsson, or its potential espionage among technicians in telecom companies globally. The Australian officials claim that Huawei’s attack began with a malicious software update. “In 2012, Australian intelligence officials informed their U.S. counterparts that they had detected a sophisticated intrusion into the country’s telecommunications systems,” according to the Bloomberg report by Jordan Robertson and Jamie Tarabay. That cyber breach and its discovery led to Australian and U.S. intelligence …
Chinese Tech Giant Huawei Attacked Aussie and US Networks in 2012
December 20, 2021
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