High ranking members of the defense industry from both the U.S. and Taiwan were among the people targeted by the attack.

The News Lens
Date: 2016/10/28
By: ZiQing Low

A U.S.-based security firm has revealed that Chinese hackers targeted participants at

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the 2016 United States – Taiwan Defense Industry Conference organized by the U.S-Taiwan Business Council in Virginia Oct. 2-4, the Chinese-language Liberty Times reports.
Steven Adair, the founder of security company Volexity, said participants at the conference who were targeted received an e-mail that contained information about the first event at the conference and an attached document, all written in Chinese, the United Daily News reported.

The e-mails containing malware appeared to have been sent from a Taiwanese “hinet.net” domain that actually originated from Chinese servers.    [FULL  STORY]