The company's global threat report for2018also stated that cyber attackers stole data after targeting executives & research fellows".〜the victims included "researchers specializing in nuclear policy&the South China Sea, as well as event coordinators responsible for planning an annual security foru
Some UK think tanks were hacked by China-based groups last year, a US cyber-security company which said it investigated the breaches has claimed. Crowdstrike said it saw the repeated targeting of think tanks specialising in international security and defence issues, beginning in April 2017.
2/26 Dmitri Alperovitch, Crowdstrike's co-founder&chief technology officer, told the BBC that a number of think tanks that work on Chinese policy were targeted "very aggressively". He said those behind the attacks were trying to steal reports-but also any information about connections to government.