Three Israeli defense contractors, responsible for building the “Iron Dome” missile shield, were compromised by hackers and robbed of huge quantities of sensitive documents pertaining to the shield technology.
According to Brian Krebs the intrusions occurred between October 10th, 2011 and August 13th, 2012, and the attackers are thought to be operating out of China. Krebs said that they hacked into the corporate networks of three top Israeli defense technology companies, including Elisra Group, Israel Aerospace Industries, and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.
CyberESI determined that the attackers exfiltrated large amounts of data from the three companies. Most of the information was intellectual property pertaining to Arrow III missiles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), ballistic rockets, and other technical documents in the same fields of study.
