Somebody, according to today's Wall Street Journal, is finding out who these hackers are and exposing them in public. Whoever is doing it is anonymous, though not necessarily Anonymous the group that was around a few years ago doing mischief. The group goes by the name Intrusion Truth. It is an interesting development since most of these targets are in the Chinese military and supposed to be good at what they do. Even so, the exposure produced Uber records of named individuals going between "...websites used by APT 10 to two other Chinese companies, Tianjin Huaying Haitai Science and Technology Development Co. and Laoying Baichaun Instruments Equipment Co." and a Chinese intelligence service building. How cool is that? I love these guys.
China is supposed to be the most data conscious country in the world, having collected so much information on individuals so it can make scores of social behavior for everyone. They control travel to regions of China, take DNA and biometrics on their people, and record purchases by any means - even retinal scanning some people on those. I would have thought their Uber records would have been well protected, as I imagine they are today.
Whoever Intrusion Truth is, we owe you one. This is an amazingly simple way to slow down hacking by Chinese in some of these industries. It will get harder as time goes on, since the Chinese will change their names and get on with new equipment in different places. But, in the meantime, The cleverness of Intrusion Truth is really top notch, and, by the way, they have pictures of these hackers in case they show up again. Facial recognition software is just so much better than it used to be.
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