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Nation-state attackers affiliated with the Chinese government have made off with a trove of undersea military secrets, according to a report.
Hackers were able to mount a lateral attack after compromising the networks of a Navy contractor working for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Rhode Island, according to a Washington Post report, citing American officials.
The result? “Massive amounts of highly sensitive data” flowed into the hands of China, unnamed officials told the paper, including “secret plans to develop a supersonic anti-ship missile for use on U.S. submarines by 2020.”
The incident happened January and February, the sources said, and resulted in 614 gigabytes of data, most of it highly sensitive info related to American offensive and defensive systems, including cryptography systems for secure communication, signals and sensor data, and the Navy’s electronic submarine warfare library, which contains information about adversary radar platforms.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday June 13 2018, @06:52AM (1 child)
back in the day a thief snatched a laptop from between the ankles of an MI-5 agent as he was taking a leak in a train station.
i eventually decided that was a setup, for example to lead soviet cryptologists to crack the wrong cipher.
perhaps all those gigabytes were put there shortly before the PRC was invited in.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Wednesday June 13 2018, @12:43PM
aka: "disinformation" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation [wikipedia.org]