SUSPECTED CHINESE HACKERS TARGET COMPUTERS USED TO CONTROL SATELLITES
Cybersecurity firm: Hacking group’s ‘motives go beyond spying and may also include disruption’
Mikael Thalen
Infowars.com
JUNE 20, 2018
Suspected Chinese hackers are targeting companies involved with satellite communications and geospatial imaging.
According to U.S. cybersecurity firm Symantec, the hacking group, referred to as “Thrip,” has set its sights on “those in the communications, geospatial imaging, and defense sectors” in the United States and Southeast Asia.
Symantec warned that Thrip’s behavior appeared to be more than simple espionage due to the hackers’ heavy focus on computers linked to satellites.
“Perhaps the most worrying discovery we made was that Thrip had targeted a satellite communications operator,” Symantec’s Security Response Attack Investigation Team writes. “The attack group seemed to be particularly interested in the operational side of the company, looking for and infecting computers running software that monitors and controls satellites.”
Thrip’s behavior, Symantec says, suggests their motives could go “beyond spying and may also include disruption.”
The hackers also targeted an organization working on geospatial imaging and mapping in a similar fashion, taking interest in the company’s operational side.
The Rest…HERE
