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New data shows China has “taken the gloves off” in hacking attacks on US
/in Internet SecurityRemember the good old days, when the US and China were supposedly working out new norms for the cybers, and China was going to stop all that hacking of US companies to steal intellectual property? It turns out the Chinese were just upping their hacking game, improving their operational security and penetration skills—learning from the methods of their Russian counterparts.
A recent example of that “island hopping” tactic is the “Cloud Hopper” hacking campaign, active since at least May of 2016. In October, DHS issued a new alert on the campaign, warning of a surge in activity by the campaign over the past few months. Cloud Hopper has been attributed to the threat group known as APT 10, aka Stone Panda—a hacking group that has been tied to the Chinese Ministry of State Security’s Tianjin Bureau.
Based on data from incident response companies gathered by the security software vendor Carbon Black, China is now the leading source of cyber-attacks. Of 113 investigations conducted by Carbon Black’s incident response partners in the third quarter of 2018, nearly half—47 in total—came from China or Russia.
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Expert Wants Nuclear Plants Taken ‘Off the Table’ in Cyber-Warfare – Nextgov
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Expert Wants Nuclear Plants Taken 'Off the Table' in Cyber–Warfare
Nextgov He called the 2012 cyber-attack on Saudi Arabia's national oil company Aramco a "scare." While the hackers failed to affect the company's core production processes, the attack played out dangerously close to the intersection of routine business systems … Q&A: Expert Wants Nuclear Plants Taken 'Off the Table' in Cyber–Warfare |
Q&A: Expert Wants Nuclear Plants Taken ‘Off the Table’ in Cyber-Warfare – National Journal
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Q&A: Expert Wants Nuclear Plants Taken 'Off the Table' in Cyber–Warfare
National Journal An employee looks at computer screens in the fourth reactor of the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant in Udomlya, Russia, some 200 miles outside Moscow, in March 2011. Experts fear that atomic facilities could become targets of cyber-attacks, with potentially … Expert Wants Nuclear Plants Taken 'Off the Table' in Cyber–Warfare // May 30 … |