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Does the report detail how the IP space is tracked to a physical neighborhood? That's....sort of critically important here.
by count 14y ago
Does the report detail how the IP space is tracked to a physical neighborhood? That's....sort of critically important here.
- count 14y agoIt says the IPs were determined to geo-locate to the Pudong New Area in Shanghai, and jumped from there straight to the PLA Unit that happens to be in Shanghai. No big leap, Pudong only has 5 million inhabitants, roughly the size of the Washington DC Metro area.
- contingencies 14y agoShanghai is defined by a river. The old town to the west, the new town to the east. Pudong literally means ("east of the river"). Pudong is metaphorically as well as physically fully half of Shanghai.
- cscurmudgeon 14y agoFrom the article "Mandiant discovered that two sets of I.P. addresses used in the attacks were registered in the same neighborhood as Unit 61398’s building. “It’s where more than 90 percent of the attacks we followed come from,” said Mr. Mandia. The only other possibility, the report concludes with a touch of sarcasm, is that “a secret, resourced organization full of mainland Chinese speakers with direct access to Shanghai-based telecommunications infrastructure is engaged in a multiyear enterprise-scale computer espionage campaign right outside of Unit 61398’s gates.”"