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FBI Warns Industry of Chinese Cyber Campaign
daten writes The FBI on Wednesday issued a private warning to industry that a group of highly skilled Chinese government hackers was in the midst of a long-running campaign to steal valuable data from U.S. companies and government agencies. "These state-sponsored hackers are exceedingly stealthy and agile by comparison with the People's Liberation Army Unit 61398 ... whose activity was publicly disclosed and attributed by security researchers in February 2013," said the FBI in its alert, which referred to a Chinese military hacker unit exposed in a widely publicized report by the security firm Mandiant.
The group’s sophistication is demonstrated less in how it gains access to targets’ computers and more in how it moves “laterally’’ once inside the system, disguising its behavior to look normal so it goes undetected, said Peter B. LaMontagne, Novetta Solutions chief executive officer.
In my day, spies had to get into the building, gain access to the blueprint file cabinet drawers, photograph them - on film no less and getting the exposure right, and then make their way out without getting caught.
It was ALL social engineering back then - OLD school.
You whipper snappers sitting behind your keyboards eating Cheetoes or Lo Mein (whatever the case may be) and drinking Wired Bull, or whatever those caffeine drinks are called, are just a bunch of lazy good for nothings!
We had to WALK and GET INTO a building and even TALK to people!
Pffft!
I'd like to see some Chinese spy walk into a high tech firm and go un-noticed!
H1-bs? Oh, shit! Yeah, ....Um.....never mind.
Captcha "crackpot" - Ahahahahahahahahaha!