Chinese hackers first exposed in 2011

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The Chinese military hacking group outed for hacking into 141 companies in 20 industries since 2006 has been in the international headlines before. In August 2011 at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas to be precise.

That's when Dmitri Alperovitch, then a research vice president at McAfee went public with details of the machinations of a hacking group then referred to as Shady RAT, a reference to "remote access tool," a technique the gang used to pilfer data from 70 organizations globally, including the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee. "It's exactly the same group," Alperovitch tells USA TODAY. "The group is still active. They did not shut down after our report, and I don't think they'll shut down after this report either."


Chinese hackers first exposed in 2011