Oh, hey, look what China did, again. Isn’t this supposed to be an act of war now?
Massive Global Cyberattack Targeting U.S., U.N. Discovered; Experts Blame China
The world’s most extensive case of cyber-espionage, including attacks on U.S. government and U.N. computers, was revealed Wednesday by online security firm McAfee, and analysts are speculating that China is behind the attacks.
The spying was dubbed “Operation Shady RAT,” or “remote access tool” by McAfee — and it led to a massive loss of information that poses a huge economic threat, wrote vice president of threat research Dmitri Alperovitch.
. . .
Analysts told The Washington Post that the finger of blame for the infiltration of the 72 networks — 49 of them in the U.S. — points firmly in the direction of China.
See also:
Revealed: Operation Shady RAT
McAfee’s Operation Shady RAT exposes national cybersecurity lapses
McAfee discovers massive series of cyber attacks
Hacking Campaign Targets U.S. Government, Signs Point to China
Operation Shady RAT: five-year hack attack hit 14 countries
China Suspected Of Shady RAT Attacks
Q+A: Massive cyber attack dubbed “Operation Shady RAT”
Operation Shady RAT: A frightening web of global cyber-espionage
Operation Shady RAT smells like Chinese hacking
All cursors point to China in global hack attack that threatens nations
China accused of biggest ever global cyber spying attacks
Hackers Based in China Attack UN, Olympic Networks, Security Firms Report
Operation Shady RAT and the cyberhacking
APT Attackers Used Chinese-Authored Hacker Tool To Hide Their Tracks
Why did it take a private security company to uncover the largest case of cyberspying in world history and why aren’t we doing something about it?
/does China have to steal every last piece of sensitive and secret computer data we possess before we start taking this threat seriously?
Filed under: Blog Entry | Tagged: Analysts, Attack, Attacks, Blame, Case, China, Chinese, Computers, Cyber Espionage, Cyberattack, Direction, Discovered, Dmitri Alperovitch, Dubbed, Economic, Economic Threat, Experts, Finger Of Blame, Firmly, Global, Government, Huge, Huge Economic Threat, Infiltration, Information, Loss, Massive, Massive Global Cyberattack, Massive Loss, McAfee, Most Extensive, Networks, Online, Online Security Firm, Operation, Operation Shady RAT, Points, Points Firmly, Poses, Rat, Remote Access, Remote Access Tool, Research, Revealed, Security, Security Firm, Shady RAT, Speculating, Spying, Targeting, Threat, Threat Research, Tool, U.N., U.N. Computers, U.S., U.S. Government, United Nations, United States, Vice President, Vice President Of Threat Research, Washington Post, World's Most Extensive Case | Leave a comment »
Eat It Or Wear It 