Operation Shady Rat

[Ed Jewett]

"Operation Shady Rat. Sustained, silent, IP theft from 70 organizations across 14 countries. More. What we have witnessed over the past five to six years has been nothing short of a historically unprecedented transfer of wealth  closely guarded national secrets (including from classified government networks), source code, bug databases, email archives, negotiation plans and exploration details for new oil and gas field auctions, document stores, legal contracts, SCADA configurations, design schematics and much more has "fallen off the truck" of numerous, mostly Western companies and disappeared in the ever-growing electronic archives of dogged adversaries."

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/glob...-2011.html

Two links provided:

#1)
NATIONAL SECURITY
Exclusive: Operation Shady ratUnprecedented Cyber-espionage Campaign and Intellectual-Property Bonanza

For at least five years, a high-level hacking campaigndubbed Operation Shady rathas infiltrated the computer systems of national governments, global corporations, nonprofits, and other organizations, with more than 70 victims in 14 countries. Lifted from these highly secure servers, among other sensitive property: countless government secrets, e-mail archives, legal contracts, and design schematics. Here, Vanity Fair's Michael Joseph Gross breaks the news of Operation Shady rat's existenceand speaks to the McAfee cyber-security expert who discovered it. Related: "Enter the Cyber-dragon".

By Michael Joseph Gross
WEB EXCLUSIVE August 2, 2011

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/featur...rat-201109

#2)
Revealed: Operation Shady RAT
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 9:14pm by Dmitri Alperovitch

http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/reve...-shady-rat

Download the PDF version of Operation Shady RAT report here:

http://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/white...dy-rat.pdf

[Jan Klimkowski]

Racist tosh.

From the Vanity Fair article:

One leading cyber-espionage expert, however, thinks the likely culprit's identity is clear. "All the signs point to China," says James A. Lewis, director and senior fellow of the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, adding, "Who else spies on Taiwan?"

Psyops Central: let's blame the Chinese for all the hacking. We need a sexy title that Fox 'n Friends will love. I know, let's call it "Shady Rat".

Psyops Jr: yeah, cool, and let's make out like the Free World never hacks into computers and steals stuff.

Psyops Central: everyone knows that only shady rats, with gook eyes, do industrial espionage. Free market capitalism rules! MSM'll lap it up!

[Magda Hassan]

And McAfee are hardly disinterested bystanders in all this either :unclesam:

[Ed Jewett]

What?! You don't have McAfee anti-malware on your computer? Beware of software companies bearing gifts... Some of those packages are very PROmising.