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  • Significant rise in Chinese phishing sites

    Phishers shown to care little about domain names. In its latest ‘Global Phishing Survey’, the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) reports a significant increase in phishing sites targeting Chinese Internet users. The report mentions 112,000 different phishing attacks in the first six months of 2011, compared to just 42,000 in the previous six months. This rise…

  • Chinese whispers of malware writing and bribery in the industry

    As China corruption scandals rumble on, more rumours of malware writers in AV firms surface. Several recent stories in the media have revolved around China and malware writers, with the much confusion as to the real facts. After rumours last week that Spanish security firm Panda had hired the Chinese author of the Fujacks virus,…

  • More than 1 million Chinese phones infected with malware

    Mobile botnet sending out SMS spam. Over one million mobile phones in China have been infected with malware and are sending out SMS spam, the Shanghai Daily reports. Masquerading as an anti-virus application, the malware installs itself on users’ phones and sends SIM card information to hackers who then are able to control the phone,…

  • Spammers move from China to Russia

    Stricter rules on registering .cn domains leads to increase in malicious .ru domains. A change in the rules of the organization responsible for registering .cn domains has resulted in a drop in the number of spam messages referencing Chinese top-level domains, with Russian domains moving in to fill the gap. Until recently, a large proportion…

  • China hosting over half of malicious sites

    StopBadware.org report highlights Chinese dominance in web malware. A report from StopBadware.org released last week found that 52% of malicious websites were hosted in China, with the US the only other major player in the field with 21%. The report was compiled from the list of active malicious sites flagged by Google ‘s Safe Browsing…

  • China-Tibet row spills over into malware attacks

    Both sides of debate targeted to spread malicious code. With the political row over China’s involvement in Tibet continuing to make the headlines, cybercriminals have been as quick as ever to exploit the public interest in the topic, using the story as a hook for several malware attacks. The first was as wave of SQL-based…

  • UK spooks spooked by possible Chinese hacking

    MI5 warns of suspected corporate espionage onslaught. The UK security service MI5 has issued an alert to 300 leading firms, warning them to ensure best possible security measures are in place to combat potential espionage attempts by Chinese hackers. The warning, sent to company bosses and IT security heads, was leaked to the press and…

  • Infected Seagate hard drives sold in Taiwan

    External Maxtor disks shipped carrying autorun datastealer. A shipment of Maxtor external hard drives, produced in Thailand by US-based Seagate and sold in Taiwan, has been found to be infected with Autorun trojans designed to gather sensitive data from machines connected to the storage devices. The high-capacity (300GB and 500GB) drives in the Maxtor Basics…

  • Fujacks/Panda virus authors sentenced, offered job

    Fujacks author put away for four years. Four men who were charged last month with writing, selling and spreading the W32/Fujacks virus and worm (a.k.a. the ‘Panda burning joss-sticks’ virus) have been sentenced in a Chinese court, with the self-confessed author of the virus being sent to prison for four years. But 25-year-old lead programmer…

  • China denies Pentagon hacking claims

    ‘Hacked by Chinese’ row rumbles on. The Chinese government has vigorously denied accusations, made in a report in UK newspaper The Financial Times on Monday, that Chinese hackers were behind a security breach in US computer systems in the Pentagon. The penetration, into an unclassified network used by the staff of Defense Secretary Robert Gates,…