A widespread cyber-espionage operation has penetrated 72 government and other organisations, most of them in the US, copying everything from military secrets to industrial designs. Analysts said circumstantial evidence pointed to China as the most likely suspect.The campaign was disclosed late on Tuesday by McAfee, the US security firm, which had won access to a server used as a point of control in the attack and reviewed records going back to 2006 showing connections from the server to computers inside the United Nations, more than a dozen defence contractors and other targets. McAfee then contacted many of the victims to determine what had been lost. The victims include the UN, International Olympic Committee and governments of the US, Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam and Canada. McAfee said the targets included six US government agencies and 13 defence contractors.
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Cyberattacks penetrate military secrets and designs
A widespread cyber-espionage operation has penetrated 72 government and other organisations, most of them in the US, copying everything from military secrets to industrial designs. Analysts said circumstantial evidence pointed to China as the most likely suspect.