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Aerospace Among Industries Targeted By Chinese Cyber Attacks, Mandiant Says

Wednesday, March 6th, 2013

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The aerospace industry makes up the second largest group of companies that have been targeted by a unit of the Chinese military since 2006 for stealing various proprietary data by electronic means, according to a report released recently by the Virginia-based cyber security firm Mandiant. The report exposes an organization that it believes is linked to China’s Peoples Liberation Army and has significant resources and manpower to sustain long-running cyber penetrations and data theft against its targets. The organization, which…

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