*Cyber espionage hit the headlines last week with reports of a series of hacker attacks—dubbed Night Dragon—aimed at major energy companies. The sophistication level of the attacks is significantly lower than that of the notorious Stuxnet worm that was found infecting control system networks last year, experts say. But the Night Dragon attacks, believed to be largely the work of Chinese hackers, have nonetheless been successful in achieving their apparent objective—that of intellectual property theft from global oil and gas, energy and petrochemical companies.
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