http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/technology/private-report-further-details-chinese-cyberattacks.html
By Nicole Perlroth
The New York Times
June 9, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO — 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.
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.
The report, parts of which The New York Times was able to corroborate
independently, ties attacks against dozens of public and private sector
organizations back to a group of Shanghai-based hackers whom CrowdStrike
called Putter Panda because they often targeted golf-playing conference
attendees. The National Security Agency and its partners have identified
the hackers as Unit 61486, according to interviews with a half-dozen
current and former American officials.
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