By Herman Lai, posted Aug 24, 2011 at 10:15 PM, 664 views,

China State TV Revealed Hint Cyber-Attack To U.S. (Videos)

Chinese Central Television (CCTV) last month broadcast a few second of footage showing direct DDOS attacks system against a U.S. based website, the footage appeared to be contradictory with the China’a repeated assertions that it doesn’t engage in cyberattacks.

The first two videos are the entire program that revealed on CCTV last July, discussing the rise of internet power, mentioning about the cyber warriors pioneer, which means the U.S. back in decade ago, and also explained the importance of cyber-defense in each country. During middle way through the program, there was a footage showed their military students training for cyberattacks.

According to WSJ says about the footage:

A cursor is shown moving on a computer screen with a software application that is identified in Chinese characters as a “distributed denial-of-service” attack. Also known as DDOS, such attacks are relatively unsophisticated tools of cyberwarfare that involve bombarding websites with data to disable them.

The next screen says at the top, in Chinese, “Attack system..PLA Electronic Engineering Institute.” PLA stands for People’s Liberation Army.

Below, it asks the user to “Choose the attack target” from a drop-down list of websites related to the Falun Gong spiritual movement, which China’s government banned in 1999 and which has been the object of a sustained crackdown ever since.

The cursor highlights one, called Minghui.org, and then clicks on a large button below saying “Attack.”

The IP address given for the selected website—which is currently unavailable in China but accessible in the U.S.—is 138.26.72.17 and is registered to the University of Alabama in Birmingham, according to at least two websites that trace IP addresses.

Experts suggest the software that shown in the video is likely a decade old, claimed this is only a outmoded interface.

Also in May this year, China’s Defense Ministry announced their 30-strong cyberdefense unit, called the “Blue Army,” emphasizing was for defensive purposes only.

Source: WSJ via Gizmodo