The Chinese cyber attack group Deep Panda late last month compromised "several" national security think tanks with multiple, simultaneous, and sophisticated attacks designed to collect information about foreign policy decisions, according to researchers at security firm CrowdStrike. Deep Panda, a group that has been attacking targets in the high-tech, financial services, and government arenas since 2009, was found to be cracking think tank systems to collect data on national security policy related to southeast Asia and the Middle East -- two areas where international disputes heightened in June.
CrowdStrike officials declined to name the think tanks or the exact details of the data that was compromised, but the attackers breached email, directories and files, they said. Deep Panda had been collecting information primarily on U.S. policy in southeast Asia, but suddenly shifted direction and began collecting data about Iraq and Middle East policy, according to a blog posted on the CrowdStrike site this afternoon.
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