By Kwamena JAAFFUL- Ghana

Cybercriminals are increasingly moving from stealing just personal asset to data-driven properties, such as trade secrets or product planning documents and capturing other corporate intellectual property including source codes that they can effortlessly get rid of through the subversive market, a study from McAfee and the SAIC suggests.

Security firm McAfee, in a research found that some hackers are starting to specialise in data stolen from corporate networks especially as such information is often unprotected.

Simon Hunt, vice president and chief technology officer for endpoint security at McAfee said “We’ve seen significant attacks targeting this type of information. Sophisticated attacks such as Operation Aurora, and even unsophisticated attacks like Night Dragon, have infiltrated some of the largest, and seemingly most protected corporations in the world. Criminals are targeting corporate intellectual capital and they are often succeeding.”

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Tags: Night Dragon, Operation Aurora, SAIC, Simon Hunt

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