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477 Chinese Spies Spent Months Inside Aerospace Engineering Firm's Network Via Legacy IT

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 09/18/2024 19:20 EDT

Chinese Spies Spent Months Inside Aerospace Engineering Firm's Network Via Legacy IT

The Register's Jessica Lyons reports: Chinese state-sponsored spies have been spotted inside a global engineering firm's network, having gained initial entry using an admin portal's default credentials on an IBM AIX server. In an exclusive interview with The Register, Binary Defense's Director of Security Research John Dwyer said the cyber snoops first compromised one of the victim's three unmanaged AIX servers in March, and remained inside the US-headquartered manufacturer's IT environment for four months.

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