Episode 37 - Turbine Panda. Chinese Hacking - Part 4

Multinational aviation companies, Chinese spies, Marvel superheroes, diplomatic negotiations, massive data theft, and the endgame of China’s cyberwarfare program. This is the story of Turbine Panda and part four of our series on Chinese Hacking.

Show Transcript

Modem Mischief Merch!

Chinese Hacking Series:

Part 1 - Wicked Rain

Part 2 - Wicked Rose

Part 3 - CRACK99

Created, Produced & Hosted by Keith Korneluk

Written & Researched by Jim Rowley

Edited, Mixed & Mastered by Greg Bernhard

Theme Song You Are Digital by Computerbandit

Sources

Dawn of the Code War: America’s Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Threat, by John P. Carlin with Garrett M. Graff

The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future, by Jonathan E. Hillman 

A Chinese Spy Wanted GE’s Secrets, But the US Got China’s Instead, Bloomberg 2022 

The Daring Ruse That Exposed China’s Campaign to Steal American Secrets, The New York Times 2023

HUGE FAN OF YOUR WORK: How TURBINE PANDA and China's Top Spies Enabled Beijing to Cut Corners on the C919 Passenger Jet, Crowdstrike intelligence report October 2019

GE Aviation leaders testify against accused Chinese spy charged with stealing their trade secrets, WCPO Cincinnati 2021

Is China's J-31 5th-Gen Stealth Fighter a F-35 "Rip-Off, Warrior Maven February 2022?

China’s Military Built with Cloned Weapons, USNI News 2015

Chinese President Xi Jinping takes charge of new cyber effort, The Washington Post 2014

Xi Jinping: Does China truly love 'Big Daddy Xi' – or fear him?, The Guardian 2015

A Real-life Spy Story How the downfall of one intelligence agent revealed the astonishing reach of Chinese espionage, The New York Times 2023

Weak login security at heart of Anthem breach, The Hill 2015

”Survey of publicly available reports on advanced persistent threat actors,” Computers & Security Volume 72, January 2018, Pages 26-59

China's `Deep Panda' May Be Behind Anthem Hack, Bloomberg 2015

Chinese government has arrested hackers it says breached OPM database, The Washington Post 2015

In a first, Chinese hackers are arrested at the behest of the U.S. government, The Washinton Post 2015 

Former GE engineer gets two-year prison term in espionage case, Times Union 2023  

Former GE engineer from Niskayuna to be sentenced for China 'espionage' plot, Times Union 2023  

NJCCIC Threat Profile: Sakula, 2017

The China Defence Universities Tracker, Australian Strategic Policy Institute  

Chinese Hackers, Agents in Plot to Hack Aerospace Tech From US Companies, Radio Free Asia 2018 

GE Aviation leaders testify against accused Chinese spy charged with stealing their trade secrets, WCPO Cincinnati 2021

Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of hacking, report says, ZDNet 2019

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S SECRET PLANS TO SPY FOR AMERICAN CORPORATIONS, The Intercept 2014

Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of hacking, report says ZDNet 2019

U.S. And Belgium Nab Chinese Spy Accused Of Stealing GE Jet Engine Tech And More, The Drive 2018

Chinese-American engineer charged with stealing GE technology, Phys.org 2018

Feds: Chinese spies orchestrated massive hack that stole aviation secrets, Ars Technica 2018

Computer Spies Breach Fighter-Jet Project, The Wall Street Journal 2009

Hackers breach defences of joint strike fighter jet programme, The Guardian 2009

Chinese “Clone” Of Northrop Grumman X-47B Drone Appears At Zhuhai 2018 Airshow, The Aviationist 2018

“Why do Chinese think China will overtake the US? The author of Unrestricted Warfare explains, ”Lei's Real Talk 2022