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No, but perhaps it is coming from the same organization that thought MCAS was a great idea. After all, such an organization obviously has severe deficiencies with basic systems engineering; what other deficiencies might it have?
The article clearly states China was believed to be responsible.
Out of curiosity: why is China not mentioned in the article's title, when the first sentence states a "Chinese state-sponsored hacking operation"?
To answer your comment: because the title of the submission "Airbus Suppliers Hit in State-Sponsored Attack" and the title of the article "Airbus Suppliers Hit in State-Sponsored Attack" are identical, and that's totally fine. Changing the title of the submission to include a detail from the article actually editorializes the submission, which is not ideal for HN or the audience here.
Out of curiosity: why is China not mentioned in the article's title, when the first sentence states a "Chinese state-sponsored hacking operation"?
Out of curiosity: why is China not mentioned in the article's title, when the first sentence states a "Chinese state-sponsored hacking operation"?
It took my vouch to un-dead your comment, useful because I couldn't reply to it otherwise. I'm morbidly fascinated as to how the top two comments on this submission were marked dead in the first place, but considering it took a vouch to automatically bring it back to life, there's a hint of a Flag brigade on this thread. To answer your comment: because the title of the submission "Airbus Suppliers Hit in State-Sponso…
In these days of click-bait "news", it's a valid question.
Out of curiosity: why is China not mentioned in the article's title, when the first sentence states a "Chinese state-sponsored hacking operation"?
These days state-sponsored has become a euphemism for Chinese .
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Jokes aside there are a huge number of mobile devices with saved credentials for exclusive business VPN access and a lot of businesses restrict access to resources based on the source of requests, which can be the corporate network of a supplier. This is often done to enable some forms of electronic data interchange. Putting these services in another network would probably have helped.
It would be my guess that the hacker gained access through a privileged network with stolen VPN credentials. There would be countless ways to achieve that.
Perhaps pickpockets should just sell the stolen phones to relevant companies.