Chinese spies spent months inside aerospace engineering firm’s network via legacy IT

September 18, 2024 at 01:08PM Chinese state-sponsored spies breached a global engineering firm’s network using default credentials on an IBM AIX server. The espionage, attributed to a People’s Republic of China team, aimed for intellectual property theft and supply-chain manipulation. Despite exposure to local and federal agencies, the intruders established persistent access before getting caught, … Read more