Friday, August 13, 2021

Chinese hackers disguised themselves as if from Iran to target Israel

Very clever!

"When hackers broke into computers across Israel’s government and tech companies in 2019 and 2020, investigators looked for clues to find out who was responsible. The first evidence pointed directly at Iran, Israel’s most contentious geopolitical rival. The hackers deployed tools normally associated with Iranians, for example, and wrote in the Farsi language.

But after further examination of the evidence—and information gathered from other cyber-espionage cases across the Middle East—analysts realized it was not an Iranian operation. Instead, it was conducted by Chinese operatives posing as a team of hackers from Tehran.

The hackers successfully targeted the Israeli government, technology companies, and telecommunication firms ..."

Chinese hackers disguised themselves as Iran to target Israel | MIT Technology Review But they left a few clues that gave them away.




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