Besides, businesses like to take an Us against Them stand against hackers. Data security is so tight that corporations rarely attempt to hack one another. However, some companies still attempt to acquire trade secrets. These computerized maps locate potential oil reserves, and according to investigators the attack resulted in the loss of “project financing information with regard to oil and gas field bids and operations.” The hack was dubbed “Night Dragon.”īoth Operation Shady Rat and Night Dragon are said to have originated “primarily” in China, but information is vague.īefore copyright and patent protection, corporate espionage was just another nine-to-five way of doing business. Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, and BP had their topographical maps hacked. In 2009, hackers stole proprietary information from U.S.
These ongoing cyber attacks were first reported by Dmitri Alperovitch, and have since been nicknamed “Operation Shady RAT.”
Over the past few years, there have been several high-profile cyber attacks against companies, including Target, Home Depot, and Sony.īeginning in 2006, 70 companies, governments, and non-profit organizations were hacked, and spies continued to take information for two years. of Computer Forensic Services, estimates it’s less than one percent. Sophisticated hackers seldom generate enough incriminating evidence to get caught.