Titan Rain

Titan Rain was the designation given by the federal government of the United States to a series of coordinated attacks on American computer systems since 2003. The attacks were labeled as Chinese in origin, although their precise nature, i.e., state-sponsored espionage, corporate espionage, or random hacker attacks, and their real identities — masked by proxy, zombie computer, spyware/virus infected — remain unknown. The activity known as "Titan Rain" is believed to be associated with an Advanced Persistent Threat.

In early December 2005 the director of the SANS Institute, a security institute in the United States, said that the attacks were "most likely the result of Chinese military hackers attempting to gather information on U.S. systems."

Titan Rain hackers gained access to many United States computer networks, including those at Lockheed Martin, Sandia National Laboratories, Redstone Arsenal, and NASA.

References

• Graham, B. "Hackers Attack Via Chinese Web Sites", Washington Post, August 25, 2005.
• Espiner, T. "Security experts lift lid on Chinese hack attacks", ZDNet News, November 23, 2005.
• Thornburgh, N. "Inside the Chinese Hack Attack", Time.com, August 25, 2005.
• Thornburgh, N. "The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies (And the Man Who Tried to Stop Them)", Time, August 29, 2005.
• Brenner, B. "Myfip's Titan Rain connection", SearchSecurity.com, August 31, 2005.
• Onley, D and Wait, P. "Red Storm Rising", Government Computing News, August 21, 2007

See also

• Shawn Carpenter
• Moonlight Maze
• Operation Aurora
• Cyberwarfare
• Advanced Persistent Threat
• Byzantine Hades