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Cyber mercenaries and insiders hired by Chinese intelligence to hack aerospace and tech firms

Security Affairs

US intelligence believes that the cyber espionage operation was under the control of Zha Rong and Chai Meng, two intelligence officers working for the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security (JSSD) in the Chinese city of Nanjing. The campaign was carried out at least from January 2010 to May 2015. According to U.S. based firm.

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MY TAKE: Iran’s cyber retaliation for Soleimani assassination continues to ramp up

The Last Watchdog

Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin calling out Iran’s “robust cyber program,” and cautioning everyone to be prepared for Iran to “conduct operations in the United States.” cyber ops capability is Stuxnet , the self-spreading Windows worm found insinuating itself through Iranian nuclear plants in 2010.

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The role of a secret Dutch mole in the US-Israeli Stuxnet attack on Iran

Security Affairs

Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm developed to target SCADA systems that was first uncovered in 2010, but researchers believe its development begun at least 2005. and Israel get Stuxnet onto the highly secured Natanz plant? This is the root cause of the discovery of Stuxnet in June 2010. intelligence.

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MY TAKE: How state-backed cyber ops have placed the world in a constant-state ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’

The Last Watchdog

That May 10th air strike by the Israel Defense Force marked the first use of military force in direct retaliation for cyber spying. This comes as no surprise to anyone in the military or intelligence communities. nuclear arsenal in 2003 • Breaches of computers at the Department of Commerce in 2006 • Hacking of military systems at U.S.

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