SHANGHAI — Activist hacker group Anonymous plans to launch further attacks on Chinese government websites in a bid to uncover corruption and lobby for human rights, a member of the group said on Monday. Anonymous, a loosely knit group that has attacked financial and government websites around the world, hacked into…
Anonymous plans more attacks against Chinese sites
SHANGHAI — Activist hacker group Anonymous plans to launch further attacks on Chinese government websites in a bid to uncover corruption and lobby for human rights, a member of the group said on Monday. Anonymous, a loosely knit group that has attacked financial and government websites around the world, hacked into…
Anonymous hackers deface 500 Chinese Government websites
The Anonymous movement has pulled off one of its biggest hacktivist coups yet, successfully defacing hundreds of Chinese Government websites in a spectacular protest against Internet censorship. Defacement attacks are ten-a-penny but the scale of what the previously unknown Chinese wing of the group and hackers invited via Twitter launched…
Beware Android Malware Masquerading as Chinese Game
It may look like an app for a Chinese game called “The Roar of the Pharaoh,” but it’s actually just another fake Android app that’s really a malware Trojan in disguise, according to security researchers warning about it. Writing in a blog, Sophos security researcher Chester Wisniewski calls it a…
Security firm links cyber spy campaign to Chinese hacker
Tokyo-based computer security firm Trend Micro on Friday said it linked a hacker in China to a “cyber espionage” campaign targeting India, Japan, and Tibetans. View full post on Security News Headlines – Yahoo! News View full post on National Cyber Security
Chinese hacker leaks data of six mn people
Beijing, March 22 (IANS) A suspected hacker in China, accused of leaking personal information of more than six million internet users, has been arrested. Zeng, detained on charges of illegal acquisition of computer data, committed the crimes in December. He was nabbed in Zhejiang province. The leak is considered the…
Inside the Chinese Boom in Corporate Espionage
Last June, three men squeezed inside a wind turbine in China’s Gobi Desert. They were employees of American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC), a Devens (Mass.)-based maker of computer systems that serve as the electronic brains of wind turbines. From time to time, AMSC workers are required to head out to a…
Chinese Trojans used to attack pro-Tibet organisations
A malware campaign targeting activists at pro-Tibet organisations could be the work of the same Chinese group behind a major attack on the chemical industry last year, researchers from AlienVault have suggested. The new attack uses a malicious Word attachment sent by email to organisations including the Central Tibet Administration…
Chinese cyber skills ‘pose threat to US security’
China’s strengthening cyber capabilities will complicate US efforts to defend itself against industrial espionage and possible military confrontations in places such as Taiwan, according to a new US congressional report released today. The report was written by defence contractor Northrop Grumman for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which…
Chinese hackers ‘had full control’ over Nasa lab that commands 23 spacecraft
Chinese hackers had 'full access' to the computer network in one of Nasa's key laboratories, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, allowing them to steal information and even upload hacking software. View full post on hacking tools – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security