FireEye uncovered two cyber espionage campaigns operating in parallel from China

  • 12 September 2014
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by Pierluigi Paganini on September 12th, 2014
 

FireEye discovered two distinct groups of Chinese hackers operating cyber espionage campaigns on a large-scale in parallel.

Security experts at FireEye have discovered two hacking campaigns conducted by distinct groups operating in separate regions of China that seems to work in parallel.
The first team of hackers, named Moafee, is targeting military and government organizations which were in some way involved in South China sea dispute. The attackers targeted different organizations as explained by the researchers at FireEye in a blog post, and appears to operate from the Guangdong Province and hit entities working in the defense industry in the United States.
The second team, dubbed DragonOK, contacted corporate espionage operation on high-tech and manufacturing companies in Japan and Taiwan.
 


 
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The Chinese are stepping up their cyber attacks and a alarming rate
and going after the big organizations military and government.

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