Dale Peterson
Appearances
To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Ep 7: Everything Everywhere All At Once
The hack got into their network in such a way that it could do a couple things. One, it could change some of the source code, deliver bad code. with a backdoor or something of that nature. And they also had, until then it's not unique, they had connections to a lot of their customers.
To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Ep 7: Everything Everywhere All At Once
So potentially, it was the first example of an attack that could be highly leveraged, where you say, if I can compromise this one system, I then can compromise all these other systems.
To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Ep 7: Everything Everywhere All At Once
I think as soon as I heard about it, just because we hadn't seen them go after a target like this on a stealthy manner. And as you know, you don't get a lot of details from these companies when they're hacked. But the details they did provide indicated that there was more than just a casual intrusion, that they had been there in there a while and they were getting deep into their system.
To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Ep 7: Everything Everywhere All At Once
The thing that really got my attention was these remote connections to these other sites that I've been on the other end with customers. I know that from that location, they used to connect in. to support projects that were being deployed. So it was something that put a lot of large, important companies at risk.