Security researchers have many names for the hacking group that is one of the suspects for the cyberattack on the U.S. government's Office of Personnel Management (OPM): PinkPanther, KungFu Kittens, Group 72 and, most famously, Deep Panda.
But to Jared Myers and his colleagues at the cybersecurity company RSA, it is called Shell Crew, and Myers' team is one of the few that has watched it in midassault — and eventually repulsed it.
Myers' account of a months-long battle with the group illustrates the challenges that governments and companies face in defending against hackers that researchers believe are linked to the Chinese government.