"Operation Shady Rat" identifies widespread cyber-spying [telecom]

Report on 'Operation Shady RAT' identifies widespread cyber-spying

By Ellen Nakashima,August 02, 2011

A leading computer security firm has used logs produced by a single server to trace the hacking of more than 70 corporations and government organizations over many months, and experts familiar with the analysis say the snooping probably originated in China.

Among the targets were the Hong Kong and New York offices of the Associated Press, where unsuspecting reporters working on China issues clicked on infected links in e-mail, the experts said.

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Bill Horne
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The NYT reported today that "few American corporations that have been hacked in recent years have publicly acknowledged it, but some are now stepping forward, reflecting new ways of judging such disclosures."

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