The number of cyber attacks received by government agencies and companies in the United States is no doubt. But from which countries do the most cyber attacks come from?
According to the FBI, the US federal investigative agency, cyberattacks from China far outnumber cyberattacks from other countries, even if cyberattacks from non-Chinese countries are combined.
In a speech entitled Countering Threats Posed by Chinese Government Inside the US, FBI Director Christopher Wray said his agency was currently investigating more than 2,000 cases of cyberattacks, which he said originated from the Chinese government.
Most of these cyber attacks are carried out to steal information and technology belonging to the United States.
"The Chinese government is stealing vast amounts of information and causing profound damage to a wide variety of industries, and as you can hear, we keep opening new cases against their intelligence operations, every 12 hours," Wray said.
Wray then cited the case of the Microsoft Exchange hack, which affected 10,000 US companies, to show the impact of hacking by Chinese hackers.
Then there was also the hacking of a wind turbine company in Massachusetts called American Superconductor, where hackers stole the source code of the company.
As a result, 600 people lost their jobs because Sinovel, the company behind the hack, then used the stolen source code to sell wind turbines in the US.
Wray accused China of stealing technology essential to the success of their plans, such as the 'Made in China 2025' campaign.
In fact, in 2015, then-US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a peace agreement, in which the two countries would not commit cyber theft against each other.
But China is accused of heeding the agreement just a month after its signing, and Wray says the number of attacks continues to grow to date.
"While there are many good things we can do with the Chinese government: dismantle cybercriminal syndicates, stop money laundering, reduce deaths from opioid overdose. But at the FBI, we are focused on the realities of the Chinese government today," concluded Wray.