Posted on 04/21/2017 6:33:52 PM PDT by markomalley
Well-connected security biz FireEye is claiming Chinese hackers are trying to break into South Korea's military to halt the deployment of an anti-ballistic weapons system in the country.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, FireEye's director of cyber-espionage analysis John Hultquist said his organization – which is bankrolled by the CIA – has detected attacks targeting the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system, which is designed to shoot down incoming ICBMs – something it's very bad at. THAAD is, basically, the anti-ballistic-missile part of the Star Wars defense system.
Hultquist claimed that two Chinese cracking teams were spotted carrying out the digital attack – which kicked off after South Korea agreed to host missile systems and radars that form the THAAD. China has long been in opposition to the deployment since it was announced, and now FireEye is claiming that the Middle Kingdom has gone on the cyber-offensive.
FireEye has dubbed one group the Tonto team, and say the group is based in the north of China and has links to North Korean assaults. The other, dubbed APT10, is thought to be linked to Chinese military intelligence and has been active for a number of years.
According to Hultquist, key targets were sent spear phishing emails with weaponized attachments, and at least one person slipped up. But a corresponding failure in operational security allowed FireEye to track the assaulters' movements, he claimed.
If true, this is a worrying uptick in online warfare. But until FireEye offers specific details, file this one in the "possible" category. ®
so cyber-return fire ,D’oh
ChiComs are not on our side.
They closed down a S Korean business in China because they leased land used for THAD.
This, if true, is an act of war against us and our ally.
Ping to mention of FireEye
Would you like to go to war over this?
Good luck :)
We’re already at war, just hasn’t gone hot yet.
As soon as China thinks it has the upper hand and thinks it can win, she will try to take north America. I know many will say we trade too much, they won’t do it. That is simply wishful thinking. We are heading to war and thanks to Clinton and gang, the Chinese have advanced weaponry.
The good news is that ultimately God is in control, and things will happen in his time,i just think that time is upon us.
“In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, FireEye’s director of cyber-espionage analysis John Hultquist said his organization – which is bankrolled by the CIA – has detected attacks targeting the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system, which is designed to shoot down incoming ICBMs – something it’s very bad at.”
I torture English every now and then, but this sentence should be classified as murder.
THAAD very bad at??? That system has smoked something like a dozen tests. Maybe this is reverse psychology dis-intel...
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