The Hack That Made China a Superpower: Operation Shady Rat

Operation Shady Rat - the hacking operation that changed the world forever. It all began in 2006, when an employee of a construction company in South Korea received an email with an attachment.

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00:00 Intro
01:54 How Operation Shady Rat Started
05:06 Unit 61398
07:56 Why Shady Rat Happened?
10:19 The New Rats

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[cybernews]

Let us know if you would like to see more explainers like this!

[mikelbrenn]

Lockheed Martin billion dollar technology and yet bought an ebay network security.

[terrywong]

You mean to tell me that NSA, PRISM and all the other hackers didn't catch that. The US budget is over 50 billion for US hackers. Other countries are better?

[banalresentive]

Regarding F35 design theft: When I worked for Defence companies, it was standard for all classified data and software to be stored on locked-down air-gapped systems. Avoiding those DOD mandates could get you free room and board at a federal facility for several years (IF you didn't have the right contacts, see case of Sandy Burger). Have the security rules been relaxed? Have we gotten that stupid? If this was willful stupidity on the part of Lockheed Martin staff, they should VERY PUBLICLY be convicted and sent to the Big House. I font

[criptovida]

China became smarter when they started using local technology companies. The US still has higher access to other countries as they can inject any RAT along with Windows OS which the majority of countries do use in their critical infrastructures.

[nazmdar]

This is exactly what US has done to Iran by developing Stuxnet worm. It was one of the most sophisticated attacks to the control system of an industrial plant.

[hdogdizzy]

Please post more content like this weekly.

[wavydavy]

Every single one of these companies could have avoided all this trouble by spending more money on security rather than just 'hoping' that the measures they had in place would be good enough.

[Kekoa]

Got my sub on the first vid. The visuals, even the simple ones, were really insightful

[smallpeople]

That Lockheed Martin employees face when he found out what happened must have been… *chefs kiss*

[railfan_]

Who had the "brilliant" idea of hooking up the controls of the most important infrastructure in the world to the internet?

[smokinjoe]

We do not have to put our infrastructure on the net to begin with. Seems to be a security risk easily explored. Why risk National Security for convenience?!?

[wseam]

TL;DR they aren’t that smart, we’re just that stupid.

[MrNedinator]

love the dragon scimmy as the cursor lmao. reminds me of the old hack videos on YT back in 2010ish era :P

[Collinmcspirit]

3:30 - RuneScape Dragon Scimitar haha.. brings back memories

[rschloch]

That screensaver sound laughable, but I worked for a company who had a corporate screensaver.

[harmonicspice]

I didn't get the fallacy part? Why is the argument wrong? " If the US conducts them, why shouldn't we " 10:53

[yesmhm]

All infrastructure should have analog redundancy if not be entirely non-network

[davejoseph]

Why would anyone be dumb enough to ask the e-mail sender if the file attachment is legit?

[SSS-szmg]

Moral of the story, never ever use Windows OS for the work!