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Swiss defence contractor RUAG and the country's GovCERT have revealed the details of a 2014 network breach in which attackers got access to a stunning 23 GB of data. RUAG's business covers defence, aerospace (including drones), and ammunition technology, making it a very attractive target for espionage. The breach was only …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Nothing flashy at all, elegant though.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    It's criminal..

    It's criminal that data of that level of sensitivity wasn't locked away in a separately controlled subnet.

    That being said, this wasn't done by amateurs. That level of technical expertise and patience suggests state actors.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Facepalm

    Active Directory Defence hack

    "RUAG's business covers defence, aerospace (including drones), and ammunition technology, making it a very attractive target for espionage".

    What were these 23GBs worth of defense contractor files doing on a computer connected to the Internet.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "A stunning 23 GB of data"?

    These days 23 GB can be a whole lot of nothing. You can't tell whether a breach is serious by its size, but only by its content.

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