Chinese cybersecurity company accuses CIA of 11-year-long hacking campaign

FILE PHOTO: A sign of Qihoo 360 Technology Co Ltd is pictured at Internet Security Conference 2018 in Beijing, China September 4, 2018. REUTERS/Jason Lee/File Photo

(Reuters) - Chinese antivirus firm Qihoo 360 said CIA hackers have spent more than a decade breaking into the Chinese airline industry and other targets, a blunt allegation of American espionage from a Beijing-based firm.

In a brief blog post http://blogs.360.cn/post/APT-C-39_CIA_EN.html published on Monday in English and Chinese, Qihoo said it discovered the spying campaign by comparing samples of malicious software it had discovered against a trove of CIA digital spy tools released by WikiLeaks in 2017.