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Chinese Cyber Attacks

2008-07-14 07:08:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Chinese government to hack into U.S. computers -- military, government corporate -- and steal secrets. The truth is a lot more complicated. There certainly is a lot of hacking coming out of China. Any company that does security monitoring sees it all the time. These hacker groups seem not to be working for the Chinese government. They don't...
 
Tags: chinese, chinese military ignores, chinese military, government, chinese government, military, hacker tools, hackers, anti-chinese forces
 
 
 
 
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Inside the Chinese Underground Economy

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2007-12-09 22:34:23 by HASH0x89e9090 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Chinese Web , and this is how they assessed the high activity at the underground related forums Unlike the US or EU blackhats communities, Chinese blackhats are typically not familiar with IRC (In-ternet Relay Chat). They typically use bulletin board systems on the Web or IM software like QQ tocommunicate with each other. Orthogonal to a...
 
Tags: chinese, chinese underground, underground, underground economy, chinese web, chinese red hackers, china, china eagle union, underground black market
 
 
 
 
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A Chinese DIY Multi-Feature Malware

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2008-05-08 07:56:02 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Chinese IT Underground ? Are its participants copycats who just localize successful malware kits , and port open source malware to web applications in between adding more features within ? For the past several years, and more recently with the anti CNN attacking campaigns courtesy of Chinese hacktivists and the average Internet users, the...
 
Tags: malware, chinese, china diy malware, chinese underground, source malware, diy malware kit, chinese hacktivists, tools, dos tools
 
 
 
 
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The FirePack Exploitation Kit Localized to Chinese

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2008-05-13 08:28:54 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Chinese underground in particular. Starting from MPack and IcePack's original localizations to Chinese, the FirePack exploitation kit is the latest one to have been recently localized to Chinese , and the trend is only starting to emerge What is prompting Chinese users to translate these kits to their native language anyway? Is it the kit's...
 
Tags: chinese, firepack exploitation kit, kit, chinese users, chinese underground, internaltional underground community, native language, malicious attackers, source malware
 
 
 
 
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Tall stories from Chinese hackers

2008-03-08 15:53:03 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...Chinese hacker group on CNN. Xiao Chen makes a number of claims: that his group is paid by the Chinese government, that they have successfully hacked the Pentagon, and that even the highest security websites have weaknesses that can be exploited. I'm not going to outright dismiss Chen's claims as being typical hacker arrogance because...
 
Tags: chinese hacker, hacker, typical hacker arrogance, security websites, pentagon, chinese government, cnn, pentagon website hack, hackers
 
 
 
 
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Did the Chinese PLA Attack the U.S. Power Grid?

2008-06-02 06:37:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Chinese Peoples Liberation Army was behind, among other things, the August 2003 blackout: Computer hackers in China, including those working on behalf of the Chinese government and military, have penetrated deeply into the information systems of U.S. companies and government agencies, stolen proprietary information from American executives in...
 
Tags: government, government officials, august 14th blackout, august, computer, officials, blackout, status computer, computer hackers
 
 
 
 
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The NSA Teams Up with the Chinese Government to Limit Internet Anonymity

2008-09-18 06:34:11 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous The U.S. National Security Agency is also participating in the "IP Traceback" drafting group, named Q6/17, which is meeting next week in Geneva to work on the traceback proposal....
 
Tags: government, chinese government, chinese, articles, negative articles, government publishes articles, source, proposal, original source
 
 
 
 
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Yahoo sued again by Chinese dissidents

2008-02-29 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Yahoo faces a second lawsuit by Chinese dissidents alleging the Internet company handed over identifying information to Chinese authorities
 
Tags: chinese dissidents, chinese authorities, internet company, yahoo, information, lawsuit
 
 
 
 
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Chinese Hacktivists Waging People's Information Warfare Against CNN

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2008-04-22 02:25:00 by HASH0x8b20ee4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Chinese netizens enticed to install a pre-configured to flood CNN.com piece of malware. Both of these coordinated incidents greatly illustrate what people's information warfare, and the malicious culture of participation is all about. The PSYOPS anti-cnn.com initiative is maturing into a central coordination point for recruiting DDoS...
 
Tags: cnn, cnn sub-station, flood cnn, sports web site, site, psyops anti-cnn, contact address sports, contact, sports