Mandiant: Chinese hacker unit attempted to clean up online presence

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http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/289127-mandiant-chinese-hacker-unit-attempted-to-clean-up-online-presence

By Jennifer Martinez
The Hill
03/19/13

An elite unit of Chinese hackers that allegedly waged a massive cyber-espionage 
campaign against U.S. companies has attempted to clean up their online presence 
after being identified in a public report by information security firm 
Mandiant.

Since the release of the report last month, top administration officials have 
called on China to take urgent steps to crack down on hacker attacks and curb 
the siphoning of intellectual property from American companies.

After outing the hacker unit in its report, Mandiant executives said Tuesday 
that the Chinese hackers have taken steps to clean up their tracks and have 
largely stopped their activity.

"We've seen them try to clean up some of their online presence," Richard 
Bejtlich, chief security officer of Mandiant, told the leaders of the Senate 
Armed Service Committee's subpanel on emerging threats and capabilities at an 
unclassified briefing on Tuesday. "Some of the public databases that we or 
other security researchers can use to identify them, they've changed some of 
those entries."

"We've seen them change some of their infrastructure so the computers they were 
using to hop from China to the West, some of that has been changed but we've 
been able to keep up with them," Bejtlich added.

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