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US Defense Contractors and Universities Targeted In Cyberattacks
Trailrunner7 writes, quoting Threatpost: "Researchers have identified an ongoing series of attacks, possibly emanating from China, that are targeting a number of high-profile organizations, including SCADA security companies, universities and defense contractors. The attacks are using highly customized malicious files to entice targeted users into opening them and starting the compromise. The attack campaign is using a series of hacked servers as command-and-control points and researchers say that the tactics and tools used by the attackers indicates that they may be located in China. The first evidence of the campaign was an attack on Digitalbond, a company that provides security services for ICS systems. ... In addition to the attack on Digitalbond, researchers have found that the campaign also has hit users at Carnegie Mellon University, Purdue University and the University of Rhode Island."
This is absolutely nothing new
When we start using cyberweapons against people without constraint and then post a whole bunch of articles about how cost effective it is, other nations see that as a reason enough to use them against us. Most states cant afford enough money to build $35 million dollar fighter jets or spy satilites, but can slip some script kiddies a few bucks to send out some spam with exploits in it.