The Chinese Hack Into Companies for Aircraft Technology
It turns out that the Chinese aren’t satisfied enough with the wresting away of creative designs and ideas from other major companies and that’s why reportedly they’ve stooped to stealing information.
Exempting the occasional exceptions a new case recently emerged. Chinese hackers, who as the word has it were also spies, were netted by the officials of US Department of Justice for pinching away the covert aircraft technology details from the French and Americans. These couple of men were presumably intelligence officials from China.
Technology has always been a great topic of interest for China especially when we talk about “getting inspired” by other organizations’ work but never before has technology ever been stolen by the hackers of that country, making this the first time.
The reports of the US department have it that for over 5 years beginning in 2010 this hack-steal drill under the guidance of the officers which was related to a turbofan engine had been going on. When the hacks took place an aerospace organization which was controlled by the government was already thriving on the idea of a similar jet engine.
Being privy to such sensitive information would aid the Chinese a lot in building up their own not very dissimilar jet engines without having to participate and capitalize in the tedious process of research and development.
Companies in Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Arizona, Oregon, and the United Kingdom were affected at large by the aforementioned hackers especially corporations like Safran SA of France which was working in partnership with a US established organization and Capstone Turbine.
Techniques like Phishing tricks and domain hijacking were on the top of the list of the cyber-cons. According to sources the hackers were a part of the French organization and made use of their access to install on their systems a Trojan that goes by the name of “Sakula remote access”.
Indisputably, hacking with the support of the government is one of the foremost threats to the country and it’s a matter of sheer annoyance and abhorrence for all the organizations who legitimately invest money, energy, and ideas into the game. Some significantly tight measures ought to be taken to mitigate issues like these.
