Cyber-attackers invaded the largest defense company in the world and the most important suppliers of the Pentagon to the network - but who they were and what they wanted? Officially there is to much information, but a look at the recent past may shed light on the object and purpose of the action. The affected defense contractor Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon was already target of cyber espionage: In April 2009, a 1.4-terabyte file was stolen, which was the largest at the time, weapons project of the United States to content: Plans of the 300-billion dollar " Joint Strike Fighters "who now call" is produced F-35 Lightning II "-Tarnkappen fighter jet (WSJ report).
"It may well be that the attacker wanted to catch a few more information," says the German Cyberwar expert Sandro Gaycken of the Freie Universität Berlin. "Usually, you steal in these operations so information, but it may also be that the original information has been fabricated in order to render it unusable."
The attack had a very high …show more content…
Figures for strength 30-10000 circulated. "There are no independent figures and China itself will give us a politically predetermined number forward," said Gaycken. "In China, the military maintains very friendly relations with civilian hackers and IT research, which can be surely included when attacks are being prepared." These are also the recent attacks on Gmail accounts of US government employees in the White House, dissidents , military, activists and officials from South Korea. While Google and the US government purposely avoided blaming China itself, was the city of Jinan indicated as the origin of cyberattacks 430 kilometers south of Beijing - there has the intelligence of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the largest armed force in the world, its
"It may well be that the attacker wanted to catch a few more information," says the German Cyberwar expert Sandro Gaycken of the Freie Universität Berlin. "Usually, you steal in these operations so information, but it may also be that the original information has been fabricated in order to render it unusable."
The attack had a very high …show more content…
Figures for strength 30-10000 circulated. "There are no independent figures and China itself will give us a politically predetermined number forward," said Gaycken. "In China, the military maintains very friendly relations with civilian hackers and IT research, which can be surely included when attacks are being prepared." These are also the recent attacks on Gmail accounts of US government employees in the White House, dissidents , military, activists and officials from South Korea. While Google and the US government purposely avoided blaming China itself, was the city of Jinan indicated as the origin of cyberattacks 430 kilometers south of Beijing - there has the intelligence of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the largest armed force in the world, its