Hackers Hit US Bureau of Industry and Security

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is the US gov department that accepts paperwork on dual use tech for export approval. Basicly, anything crypto that isn’t mass marketed goes through them.

As part of the process they receive detailed plans of how devices work which they keep on computer.

It is these computers that were hacked from src ips in China. Whether the actual hackers were in china or whether that was just an intemediate node is anyones guess. Its also not known what information was taken. However, the US has took it seriously enough to take all the department’s systems offline pending a reinstall rather than attempt to clean the rootkits that were used. This is the second breach the gov have admitted to since July.

Source: Bureau of Industry and Security Hacked and Chinese Hackers Hit Commerce Department
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