Despite the recent cyber agreement between President Obama and President Xi Jinping, which call for "cyber truce" between the two countries and prohibits hacking to steal copyrights and patent properties, U.S. companies are still being subjected to Chinese cyber attacks, according to the security cyber firm CrowdStrike.

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The company revealed that a number of establishments in the United States are still being attacked by hackers in the People's Republic. According to the Dispatch Times, CrowdStrike's co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch in a blog statement written on Monday Oct. 19 revealed that Chinese assailants are trying to breach corporate websites in the U.S.

In fact, they were able to detect seven cyber invastions on U.S. technological and pharmaceutical establishments "where the primary benefits of the intrusion seems clearly aligned to facilitate theft of intellectual property and trade secrets rather than to conduct traditional, national-security-related intelligence collection," Alperovitch said. 

Different Chinese hacking groups are suspected ot perpetuating the attacks against U.S. companies. One of these groups named 'Deep Panda' is "one of the most advanced Chinese nation-state cyber intrusion groups" according to CrowdStrike.

However, Hua Chunying, China's foreign ministry spokesperson, has reiterated that the government does not support any kind of illegal activity.

As per the E&T Magazine, CrowdStrike has already sent word to the US government with regard to this matter.

Josh Earnest, White House's spokesman, in responding to a question about the issue, refused to give comments on it, but stated that the U.S. president "made clear that the United States would judge China not based on its words, not based on any verbal commitments, but based on its actions... you can rest assured that the relevant agencies in the United States government are closely monitoring China's action in this regard."

It can be recalled that just three months ago, the US Office of Personal Management was hacked, thereby exposing sensitive information, including social security number and fingerprints, of around 21.5 million people. Just before Xi's US trip last month, Beijing reported that a hacker, suspected of being behind the OPM breach, has been detained.

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