By Russell D. Vines, Posted in Security
Symantec researchers have published a whitepaper analyzing last year’s Nitro attacks on the U.S. chemical industry. It’s interesting because it’s a detailed example of how Chinese cyber attacks are often focused on a particular area of intellectual property, as opposed to, say Eastern European attacks on financial institutions designed for immediate economic gain: http://bit.ly/y1BF4p
The purpose of this attack is similar to other attacks on the car industry and other manufacturing and research organizat... read more.