Chinese Hackers Targeted U.S. Oil Companies
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The cybercriminals compromised servers in the United States and Netherlands to infiltrate oil, gas, and petrochemical companies in the United States, Kazakhstan, Taiwan, and Greece. Roughly a dozen companies were penetrated, with five firms confirming the attacks, the report said.
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First the hackers broke into servers by injecting a malicious code in Structured Query Language (SQL), the computer language used for large-scale databases (read about how a hacker used SQL injection to steal credit card information in the biggest online theft case in U.S. history.) Then they sent bogus e-mails to dupe recipients using employee laptops into submitting confidential information, a social engineering technique known as spear-phishing. The hackers also compromised corporate VPN accounts to reach the company's defense architecture.
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