Researchers offer motive behind China cyberattacks

New security research shed light on the China cyberattacks against U.S. healthcare companies last year, and also warned of an increase in such attacks for 2016. In its 2015 Global Threat report, cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike speculated that the breaches of health insurers in the U.S. "may have been executed to better understand how other countries have structured their systems, and to obtain an understanding of large, multinational healthcare providers to support negotiations for foreign investment."CrowdStrike's claim, based on China's continuing efforts reported in its latest five-year plan, is that the "targeting of the Western healthcare sector may be as much about logistics and know-how for running national-level health insurance schemes as it is about siphoning data."