A cartel of state-owned Chinese steel companies, which regularly collude in anticompetitive practices, stole and profited from U.S. Steel trade secrets in acts of nation-state cyberespionage, according to a complaint filed by U.S. Steel to the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC).
The complaint, filed on April 26, reports that a 2011 cyberattack on the company computer of senior researcher Eduardo Silva, who worked on an advanced high-strength steel line, targeted files in a specific directory to steal gigabytes of information on three U.S. Steel products. It also notes that a forensic analysis of the malware by “independent sources” found the program had contacted Internet addresses linked to a Chinese hacker group.
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