One of China's most brazen hacking sprees involved intelligence officers, hackers, security researchers, and company insiders.
By Catalin Cimpanu for Zero Day | October 14, 2019 -- 15:00 GMT (08:00 PDT) |
A report published today shines a light on one of China's most ambitious hacking operations known to date, one that involved Ministry of State Security officers, the country's underground hacking scene, legitimate security researchers, and insiders at companies all over the world.
The aim of this hacking operation was to acquire intellectual property to narrow China's technological gap in the aviation industry, and especially to help Comac, a Chinese state-owned aerospace manufacturer, build its own airliner, the C919 airplane, to compete with industry rivals like Airbus and Boeing.
A Crowdstrike report published today shows how this coordinated multi-year hacking campaign systematically went after the foreign companies that supplied components for the C919 airplane....
https://www.zdnet.com/article/building-chinas-comac-c919-airplane-involved-a-lot-of-hacking-report-says/?ftag=TREc64629f&bhid=93223229
Reading between the lines, this is more of a "how the Chinese stole technology from the US and was aided and abetted by industry insiders and politicians."
