After hacking the airwoman’s profile inward July, the spies - posing every bit the adult woman - matched her upward amongst colleagues together with sweet-talk them into revealing secrets almost Britain’s novel F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter. After the spy extracted roughly petty details out of a smitten serviceman, the adult woman noticed her profile had been hacked together with informed her bosses immediately, reported the Daily Mail.
News of the honeytrap comes weeks after The sun revealed the arrest of onetime Rolls-Royce scientist Bryn Jones, 73, on suspicion of passing secrets almost the jets to China.
RAF later confirmed inward a memo that roughly information was shared amongst tertiary parties. The leaked information belonged to the F-35 Lightning II fighter. Top brass warned RAF personnel to move vigilant for whatever attempts at social applied scientific discipline past times Britain’s adversaries.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 leaked RAF memo seen past times the Mail on Dominicus read: “A serving fellow member of the RAF had their online dating profile hacked. It later on transpired that the perpetrator together with then attempted to befriend roughly other serving fellow member of the RAF to evidently elicit comment together with special on the F-35.”
“SE (social engineering) is psychological manipulation to elicit confidential or sensitive information. SE tin move instigated over the holler upward or inward a social setting (i.e. inward a bar) also every bit online. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 skilled together with convincing operative volition aim to elicit information through friendship, sympathy and/or obligation inward club to accumulate pieces of information to construct upward a bigger picture,” the memo, written past times the RAF’s caput of security, reads.
