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The article clearly states China was believed to be responsible.
by Tronno 7y ago
The article clearly states China was believed to be responsible.
- stevefan1999 7y ago...what does Chinese gain from these attacks then? International infamy?
- munmaek 7y agoValuable aviation intel to use for their young, but growing, airline industry.
- netsharc 7y agoMakes me wonder if it'd be simpler to gain this stuff the old-fashioned spy way: bribe or blackmail someone working in one of those supplier companies. If Pierre in Toulouse is desperate to hide his affair with the Chinese girl he met a week ago in the bar...
- vonmoltke 7y agoOh, that certainly happens as well. It's just harder to pull off, because physical security at these companies (even physical computer security) is well ahead of network security.
- magduf 7y agoOr the other way: just buy it outright. Either buy from the supplier companies, or buy existing stuff used and reverse-engineer it.
- WillPostForFood 7y agoThis isn't denial of service attack, this is unauthorized access to steal technical data.
- stevefan1999 7y agoI wouldn't call it cyberattack then; rather it should be cyberespionage
- MS90 7y agoStealing blueprints and other technical data so they can make their own knockoffs of western aircraft, as they have with the J-20 (F-22 knockoff) and J-31 (F-35 knockoff).