Operação "Shady Rat"

Um artigo muito interessante na última Vanity Fair. Segundo ele, está a decorrer uma operação de grandes dimensões de roubo de informação de empresas de todo o mundo. Alegadamente a origem do ataque é a China.


For at least five years, a high-level hacking campaign—dubbed Operation Shady rat—has infiltrated the computer systems of national governments, global corporations, nonprofits, and other organizations, with more than 70 victims in 14 countries. Lifted from these highly secure servers, among other sensitive property: countless government secrets, e-mail archives, legal contracts, and design schematics. Here, Vanity Fair’s Michael Joseph Gross breaks the news of Operation Shady rat’s existence—and speaks to the McAfee cyber-security expert who discovered it.