{"id":110965,"date":"2020-08-06T17:42:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T00:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/hacking-group-has-hit-taiwans-prized-semiconductor-industry-taiwanese-firm-says"},"modified":"2020-08-06T17:42:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T00:42:49","slug":"hacking-group-has-hit-taiwans-prized-semiconductor-industry-taiwanese-firm-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/hacking-group-has-hit-taiwans-prized-semiconductor-industry-taiwanese-firm-says","title":{"rendered":"Hacking group has hit Taiwan\u2019s prized semiconductor industry, Taiwanese firm says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hacking-group-has-hit-taiwans-prized-semiconductor-industry-taiwanese-firm-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s semiconductor industry, a centerpiece of the global supply chain for smartphones and computing equipment, was the focus of a hacking campaign targeting corporate data over the last two years, Taiwan-based security firm CyCraft Technology claimed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The hackers went after at least seven vendors in the semiconductor industry in 2018 and 2019, quietly scouring networks for source code and chip-related software, CyCraft said. Analysts say the campaign, which reportedly hit a sprawling campus of computing firms in northwest Taiwan, shows how the tech sector\u2019s most prized data is sought out by well-resourced hacking groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re choosing the victims very precisely,\u201d C.K. Chen, senior researcher at CyCraft, said of the hackers. \u201cThey attack the top vendor in a market segment, and then attack their subsidiaries, their competitors, their partners and their supply chain vendors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u2019s semiconductor industry, a centerpiece of the global supply chain for smartphones and computing equipment, was the focus of a hacking campaign targeting corporate data over the last two years, Taiwan-based security firm CyCraft Technology claimed Thursday. The hackers went after at least seven vendors in the semiconductor industry in 2018 and 2019, quietly scouring [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}