US hackers run computers in China: CNCERT
p2pnet view P2P | Politics:- China has “dismissed Google’s allegation that hackers traced to China had attacked its servers”, says China Daily.
Hackers, “especially those in the US,” illegally control computers in China by “implanting malicious programs including trojans and zombie programs”, says Zhou Yonglin, deputy chief of the operations department of China National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team (CNCERT).
“We have been hoping that Google will contact us so that we could have details on this issue and provide them help if necessary”, he says in the story.
Last year, CNCERT HAD 21,618 complaints from foreign companies, “of which 1,095 cases were resolved after combining similar cases,” says the story, continuing, “These cases included the trojan and phishing attacks against eBay/Paypal, JPMorgan Chase & Co and MarkMonitor Inc.”
The number of Chinese surfers is “soaring” but their Internet security awareness is “lagging”, according to Zhou, who states hackers have made China “their primary target”.
“He accused overseas hackers, especially those in the US, of illegally controlling computers in China by implanting malicious programs including trojans and zombie programs”, declares China Daily.
“Compared with (Internet security issues in) the US, Japan and the Republic of Korea, it is very serious in China,” Zhou said, stating last year, 262,000 IP addresses in China were hit by trojans planted by nearly 165,000 overseas IP addresses.
“Those from the US ranked first, accounting for 16.61 percent.”
“China had the most zombie program-infected computers in 2008, accounting for 13 percent of the worldwide total, with IP addresses in the US accounting for the highest number of hackers”, the story adds.
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China Daily - China ‘biggest victim’ of cyber attacks, January 25, 2010.
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