Chinese code retrieved but NSA hack not ruled out
By Phil Muncaster, 15 Apr 2014 Germany’s space research centre in Cologne has been the victim of a co-ordinated and covert targeted attack carried out by state-sponsored hackers, according to aDer Spiegel report.The paper's report says that last Sunday the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) contacted the National Cyber Defence Centre in Bonn after it found malware on machines used by researchers and sysadmins.
The attack was “co-ordinated and systematic” with some of the Trojans used designed to self-destruct on discovery, while other malware lay silent for several months before being activated, according to the report.
As for attribution, that’s proving harder to pin down.
Although Chinese characters have been found in some of the malicious code recovered and some “recurring typos” may suggest an attacker from the Middle Kingdom, this could be mere “camouflage”, an insider told Der Spiegel.
As such, the NSA can’t be completely ruled out, he said.
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Found this one fascinating due to the multinational nature of the suspect...how can there be 'Chinese' code but the NSA are not ruled out...I think that the conspiracy theorists are having a field day.