Cybersecurity Firm Details How China Hacked Western Firms to Steal Aviation Tech

Cybersecurity Firm Details How China Hacked Western Firms to Steal Aviation Tech
Men work with a jet engine at a General Electric (GE) aviation engine overhaul facility in Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 8, 2016. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images
Frank Fang
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A new report by technology firm Crowdstrike has exposed how China engaged in a coordinated hacking operation involving intelligence officers, underground hackers, security researchers, and staff at foreign companies whom they recruited, in order to fulfill its development goals.

After looking over several Department of Justice indictments from August 2017 to October 2018, Crowdstrike concluded that the Jiangsu Province bureau of China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS)—the country’s chief intelligence agency—orchestrated the elaborate plan to steal aviation technology.

Frank Fang
Frank Fang
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Frank Fang is a Taiwan-based journalist. He covers U.S., China, and Taiwan news. He holds a master's degree in materials science from Tsinghua University in Taiwan.
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