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Legacy IT infrastructure hosted Chinese spies inside a US engineering firm for months

An illustration of a 1960s spy with sunglasses and a big coat.

Chinese state-sponsored hackers were snooping around a US-based global engineering firm for months, trying to steal classified information, blueprints, login credentials, and other sensitive data.

An exclusive report by The Register, discussed the news with John Dwyer, Director of Security Research at Binary Defense, a managed detection and response firm that was brought in to investigate, once the attack was discovered.

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