The
email attachment looked like a brochure for a yoga studio in Toulouse,
France, the center of the European aerospace industry. But once it was
opened, it allowed hackers to sidestep their victim’s network security
and steal closely guarded satellite technology.
Read more: 2nd China Army Unit Implicated in Online Spying - NYTimes.com
The
fake yoga brochure was one of many clever come-ons used by a stealth
Chinese military unit for hacking, said researchers at CrowdStrike, an
Irvine, Calif., security company. Their targets were the networks of
European, American and Japanese government entities, military
contractors and research companies in the space and satellite industry,
systematically broken into for seven years.
Just weeks after the Justice Department indicted five members of the Chinese army, accusing them of online attacks on United States corporations, a new report
from CrowdStrike, released on Monday, offers more evidence of the
breadth and ambition of China’s campaign to steal trade and military
secrets from foreign victims.
Read more: 2nd China Army Unit Implicated in Online Spying - NYTimes.com
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