Top 10 Chinese cyber attacks
- Monday, January 25, 2010, 6:20
- Threat Research
The malicious activity that comes from Chinese servers isknown for a long time. In many cases we are seeing the use of Chinese serversby bots that being spread over the web. Most of these bots are beingpropagated in order to steal identity, information, backdoor etc’.But there is also other activity, unlike these bots that arebeing operated by hackers there is also a cyber-war.We know that countries are using hacking techniques in orderto espionage against other countries, security organizations employing hackersin order to penetrate to other countries servers, and from the Google incidentin China we actually know something that was clear to everybody – the bigbrother is watching you. The “Foreign Policy” web site (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/)published a very interesting article that reviews the top 10 Chinese cyberattacks (that we know of) against US government sites:http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/01/22/the_top_10_chinese_cyber_attacks_that_we_know_of