Top China uni linked to army’s cyberspying unit

A top Chinese university collaborated on technical research papers with a People’s Liberation Army unit (PLA), allegedly responsible for cyberattacks on Western commercial targets.

According to a report Sunday, Reuters found at least three papers–easily accessible online–on computer network security and intrusion detection, co-authored by faculty members of Shanghai Jiaotong University and the PLA Unit 61398. The army unit was identified as an operational unit actively engaged in cyberespionage by U.S.-based security firm Mandiant last month.