Operation ShadyRAT, as it has come to be known, has seen government secrets, email archives, legal contracts and design schematics all lifted from the servers of the victims.
In 2011, Dmitri Alperovitch, then vice president of Threat Research for McAfee, authored a report about ShadyRAT (Remote Access Tool), the malware that had been used by Chinese cybercriminals to exfiltrate data from a broad cross-section of organizations over a 2-5 year period undetected.