Researchers Uncover Covert Attack Campaign Targeting Military Contractors

A new covert attack campaign singled out multiple military and weapons contractor companies with spear-phishing emails to trigger a multi-stage infection process designed to deploy an unknown payload on compromised machines. The highly-targeted intrusions, dubbed STEEPMAVERICK by Securonix, also...

Chinese Spies Stole Australia’s New F-35 Lightning-II fighter Jet Design, Snowden Reveals

The latest document release by Edward Snowden revealed the industrial-scale cyber-espionage operation of China to learn the secrets of Australia's next front-line fighter aircraft – the US-built F-35 Joint Strike Fighter JSF. Chinese spies stole "many terabytes of data" about the design of...

Joint Strike Fighter hack

The Department of Defense’s costliest weapons program ever was allegedly no match for hackers as spies broke into the Pentagon’s $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter JSF project in 2007. Details continue to be scarce to this day but former U.S. officials claim the attacks can be traced back to China...