Ha'aretz updates the Israeli Trojan horse spyware industrial espionage case:

...Hackers who broke into the computers of some of Israel's biggest industrial corporations also stole highly sensitive defense data, a senior police investigator said Friday.

The investigator, Nir Nateev of the police cybercrime unit, declined to give details.

The Hebrew daily Yedioth Aharonoth said civilian defense contractors were hit and there was a suspicion that politicians may also have been targeted. Israeli TV reported that the defense data was taken from firms producing aerial surveillance drones, or unmanned aircraft.

The revelations were the latest twist in an epic business scandal, in which Israeli blue chip companies are suspected of using illicit surveillance software to steal information from their rivals and enemies...

Posted by Laura at June 3, 2005 12:08 PM