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Subject: [ISN] U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Hit By Chinese Cyberspies
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Date: 2011-12-22 8:39:56
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By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Dark Reading
Dec 21, 2011
The latest casualty in China's alleged cyberespionage campaign against
U.S. interests? The U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Information on the Chamber's 3 million members representing most of the
top companies in the U.S. was potentially exposed in a targeted attack
that might have been in operation for more than a year and was
eventually halted by the Chamber in May 2010, according to a report
today inThe Wall Street Journal.
The Chamber poses an attractive target for spies with its corporate
membership representing U.S. business interests, so it's no surprise it
would be in the bull's eye of so-called advanced persistent threat (APT)
actors, security experts say.
"It doesn't surprise me at all," says Jeff Schmidt, founder and CEO of
JAS Global Advisors. "It's an amalgamation of American businesses: What
better place [for these attackers] to go than the U.S. Chamber?"
What was most striking about this attack was evidence that the
perpetrators specifically went after four employees of the lobbying
organization who work on Asia policy, pilfering six weeks' worth of
their emails. The six-month long campaign involved some 300 IP addresses
and compromised email of close to 50 members, who were told about the
breach. Among the information exposed in the emails were trade policy
documents, meeting notes, trip reports, schedules, and the names of
members who are in contact with the Chamber, according to the article.
[...]
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