china hackers

China Tech News reports:
Jiangmin, one of the largest anti-virus software providers in China, has published its annual computer virus epidemic report and top ten virus rank for 2007, which shows that the company blocked more than 363,000 kinds of new computer viruses in 2007 when an accumulative 34,414,793 computers were attacked.
They spot a disturbing trend:
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China Tech News reports:
Jiangmin, one of the largest anti-virus software providers in China, has published its annual computer virus epidemic report and top ten virus rank for 2007, which shows that the company blocked more than 363,000 kinds of new computer viruses in 2007 when an accumulative 34,414,793 computers were attacked.
They spot a disturbing trend:
Jiangmin [...]
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F-Secure, the anti-virus and security company, has a great post in its blog explaining why there are so many variants of malicious software (malware) out there.
They provide the example (with screen shots) of a Chinese kit to build variants of the Hupigon trojan. The kit allows the user to pick what kind of file [...]
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Shanghai Daily reports:
CHINA’S Ministry of Public Security has released a circular advising investors who trade or bank on-line to monitor their accounts for fraud.
The circular said that although on-line bank accounts were convenient, they were subject to security flaws.
What are the security flaws? Trojans designed to steal account information. While there’s no description [...]
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The South China Morning Post reports:
The Beijing Olympic Games will spark an outbreak of aggressive hacker activity, topping a wave of intense malicious internet attacks expected next year, according to security experts.
They said Beijing Olympics-related websites were prime targets for so-called large-scale denial-of-service attacks. These actions prevent legitimate users from accessing a site’s information or [...]
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People’s Daily reports:About one-third of both individual and corporate banking clients in China’s 10 major cities used online services this year, an increase of 4.2 and 1.7 percent from 2006, the China Financial Certification Authority (CFCA) report said.Security was a key concern:The report said that over half of the individual online banking customers surveyed saw [...]
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Jianwei Zhuge, Chengyu Song, Jinpeng Guo, Xinhui Han, and Wei Zou of Beijing University and Thorsten Holz of Mannheim University have written an excellent study of the Chinese underground economy titled Studying Malicious Websites and the Underground Economy on the Chinese Web. Malicious software (malware) has become much more than a nuisance. Hacking has [...]
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Shanghai Daily reports on a clockwork red:China’s criminals are getting younger, more innovative and more plentiful, state media said on Wednesday, citing experts who blamed increasing Internet access and the effects of the country’s “one-child policy.”Rather than kicking some ded in the yarbles, these lewdies go for a bit of the online:China’s police have said [...]
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The South China Morning Post reports on a speech by security smartypants Bruce Schneier:Central government agencies, banks and companies should reinforce their computer security systems to fend off increasingly harmful international hacking activity, warned BT Counterpane network security specialist and chief technology officer Bruce Schneier.What does he see as the biggest security problem in the [...]
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Symantec’s Security Response Weblog provides an excellent analysis of how hackers can exploit a vulnerability to hack your PC. The server in question has, over time, hosted at least ten variants of malicious code (malware) used to attack connecting PCs. Symantec:Clearly this piece of malware attempts to cover its bases pretty well in [...]
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