Chinese hackers target videoconferencing equipment at high-level meetings
It’s a meeting-planner’s worst nightmare: Spies sitting in on your meeting, watching your slides and stealing your data.
If you’ve been using videoconferencing equipment, you might just be the one who let them in.
A Chinese hacking group has targeted a maker of videoconferencing equipment in an attempt to spy on board and high-level meetings.
Reuters reports that security researchers at Dell Inc.’s SecureWorks unit were able to monitor the computers used by the Beijing Group of hackers to process communications from machines infected with stealthy software for stealing data.
Although the researchers could not tell what information was being stolen, they could identify many of the companies and offices affected. Among them were five different offices of a global maker of conferencing equipment, said SecureWorks researchers Joe Stewart and Don Jackson.
Stewart told Reuters he believes the hackers were looking for the source code, in which they could find flaws that would make it even easier to eavesdrop in the future.
Stewart declined to identify the videoconferencing equipment manufacturer involved, but he has notified both the company and law enforcement.
He attributed the hacking to a group based in Beijing that he has been following for years. It has hacked government offices and 10 industries, including mining, media and communications.
The greatest number were in Japan, followed by India, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States.
By Cheryl Rosen
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