Posted on 02/02/2010 1:33:56 AM PST by Cheap_Hessian
CHANGSHA, China — With a few quick keystrokes, a computer hacker who goes by the code name Majia calls up a screen displaying his latest victims.
“Here’s a list of the people who’ve been infected with my Trojan horse,” he says, working from a dingy apartment on the outskirts of this city in central China. “They don’t even know what’s happened.”
As he explains it, an online “trapdoor” he created just over a week ago has already lured 2,000 people from China and overseas — people who clicked on something they should not have, inadvertently spreading a virus that allows him to take control of their computers and steal bank account passwords.
Majia, a soft-spoken college graduate in his early 20s, is a cyberthief.
He operates secretly and illegally, as part of a community of hackers who exploit flaws in computer software to break into Web sites, steal valuable data and sell it for a profit.
Internet security experts say China has legions of hackers just like Majia, and that they are behind an escalating number of global attacks to steal credit card numbers, commit corporate espionage and even wage online warfare on other nations, which in some cases have been traced back to China.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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This is why my DNS servers block anything from .cn or .ru domains.
so secretly... a reporter found him, interviewed him, got to see his 'goodies', and listened to him brag
yea.. supah secret
the reporter should go to the factories that are designing the USB chips for USB thumb drives. if he can get those govt types to talk, he'd find out that they snag far more with their embedded virus on the chip than anything this wannabee can dream of
That is a very good idea — blocking china and russia.
If you are a home user, sign up for opendns( http://www.opendns.com/ ). It’s free and you can block domains easily. This will stop all those script injects that make calls out to foreign domains to infect your computer. It’s what I use for home.
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