--- title: Nation-State Hackers Put Defense Industrial Base Under Siege description: Nation-state actors from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are aggressively targeting defense industrial base (DIB) organizations using zero-day exploits in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/nation-state-hackers-put-defense-industrial-base-under-siege-egeomvlmh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Nation-State Hackers Put Defense Industrial Base Under Siege | daily.dev og:description: Nation-state actors from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are aggressively targeting defense industrial base (DIB) organizations using zero-day exploits in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/nation-state-hackers-put-defense-industrial-base-under-siege-egeomvlmh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EGEoMVlMh.png og:image:alt: Nation-State Hackers Put Defense Industrial Base Under Siege og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Nation-State Hackers Put Defense Industrial Base Under Siege **[Dark Reading](https://daily.dev/sources/dr)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Nation-state actors from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are aggressively targeting defense industrial base (DIB) organizations using zero-day exploits in edge devices like VPN appliances and security gateways. Google's Threat Intelligence Group and Recorded Future both highlight that pre-positioning in adversary networks has become standard practice, with over 100 edge device vulnerabilities exploited in the past four years. Beyond technical intrusions, threat actors are also targeting defense workers through spear-phishing, fake job portals, and malicious résumé-builder apps. Experts warn that these same techniques are increasingly used against non-defense enterprises, making edge device security a universal concern. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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