Der Spiegel and ZDF both reported that Chinese state-sponsored hackers repeatedly hacked the Volkswagen Group (as well as the sister brands Audi and Bentley) from 2010 to 2015. According to @hatr, Volkswagen CERT was able to restore deleted RAR archives (ATT&CK Indicator Removal: File Deletion T1070.004) that were exfiltrated, showing that the targeted documents were about the development of gasoline engines, transmissions developments (especially dual clutch transmissions), and electric vehicles (fuel cells, and automatic transmissions). While ZDF's article concentrates on the overall security event, Der Spiegel highlights the incident response containment. Interestingly, Der Spiegel links the People's Liberation Army (PLA) but walks it back in the next sentence. 🔗
Der Spiegel: VW-Konzern wurde jahrelang ausspioniert – von China?
ZDF: Der große Hack bei VW - China im Fokus
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