UglyGorilla Hack of U.S. Utility Exposes Cyberwar Threat - Bloomberg

UglyGorilla Hack of U.S. Utility Exposes Cyberwar Threat - Bloomberg UglyGorilla’s surveillance sortie was one of dozens conducted on natural gas pipelines and electric utilities by People’s Liberation Army Unit 61398 over at least 14 months in 2012 and 2013, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg News and people involved in the investigations but who asked not to be named because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. Unit members appeared to be performing the digital equivalent of mapping the dams or airfields or fuel routes of a potential enemy, what’s known in military jargon as preparation of the battlefield. While that kind of spying has been standard practice for centuries, technology is scrambling traditional rules of war, blurring the distinction between intelligence-gathering and aggression.http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-13/uglygorilla-hack-of-u-s-utility-exposes-cyberwar-threat.html?utm_source=The+Sinocism+China+Newsletter&utm_campaign=4e5be99e75-Sinocism06_14_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171f237867-4e5be99e75-29615013&mc_cid=4e5be99e75&mc_eid=5935182a65