Chinese hackers infiltrate five energy firms: study

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Source: Reuters

Hackers working in China broke into the computer systems of five multinational oil and gas companies to steal bidding plans and other critical proprietary information, the computer security firm McAfee Inc said in a report.

The report, which named the attacks Night Dragon, declined to identify the five known companies that had been hacked and said that another seven or so had also been broken into but could not be identified.

"It ... speaks to quite a sad state of our critical infrastructure security. These were not sophisticated attacks ... yet they were very successful in achieving their goals," said Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee's vice president for threat research.

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[xchrom]

1. ...

"It ... speaks to quite a sad state of our critical infrastructure security. These were not sophisticated attacks ... yet they were very successful in achieving their goals," said Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee's vice president for threat research.'

[madrchsod]

2. why am i not surprised.....

china has developed a lot of their industrial might by thief ,deceit,and bribery.

[ixion]

3. it's interesting: China has strict rules about internet usage

and yet Chinese hackers seem unhindered in running all kinds of attacks on thousands of servers worldwide. I record Chinese IPs attacking my website all the time.