China breaks up Black Hawk hacking ring
Summary
Chinese authorities have broken a hacking-tool dissemination ring, according to state media.
Topics
Police in the central Hubei province arrested three people suspected of running the Black Hawk Safety Net, state news agency Xinhua reported on Monday.
The Black Hawk Safety Net disseminated hacking tools and Trojans to its members, said Xinhua. The group had collected seven million yuan ($1,000,000) in membership fees from 12,000 subscribers by the time it was shut down. The group had an additional 170,000 members who had joined for free, said Xinhua.
As well as the arrests, the police also seized nine servers, five computers, a Honda Accord and 1.7 million yuan in assets.
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All they will do is re-group and continue doing business as usual. That is why they are BLOCKED completely from all servers/network in my network.
tux_engineer8th Feb 2010 -
RE: China breaks up Black Hawk hacking ring
Funny that, Most internet security experts will
tell you that 90% of the hacking coming out of
China is done under the authority of the
government. This was even mentioned on a recent
broadcast on NPR around the time of the attacks
against Google.
Mech_BB9th Feb 2010 -
RE: China breaks up Black Hawk hacking ring
to Mech_BB, in fact most hacking in the world coming from western countries. CIA is the biggest player behind them. You really think you are enjoying the freedom, don't you?
ciactuhomeland9th Feb 2010 -
CIA ... Really?
The CIA really? I suggest you read a book on
hacking such as Fatal System Error by Joseph Menn.
And watch less movies; read fewer conspiracy
blogs. The truth is so much more interesting than
fictionalized fear; and more useful too.Mech_BB10th Feb 2010 -
Just one?
Just one car for all of them?
RealGem9th Feb 2010 -
Yeah, I thought that too...
$1,000,000,000 and you guys can't afford separate vehicles?
But maybe they thought it would raise suspicion. China isn't exactly a classless society and if your not one of the elite a lot of luxury items would probably be really suspicious.
Socratesfoot9th Feb 2010 -
RE: China breaks up Black Hawk hacking ring
I have blocked China, Russia (includes new countries) and Brazil. I have more attacks from any ONE of these countries than all others combined - including the USA.
bpaterson10th Feb 2010 -
Commies hate Compitition ...
.... broken up because they were not Sanctioned ...
just my .02
cammobus@...10th Feb 2010 -
also
commies eat babies.
magallanes16th Feb 2010 -
RE: China breaks up Black Hawk hacking ring
nine servers, five computers, a Honda Accord and 1.7
million yuan in assets
Three of these things belong together
Three of these things are kind of the same
But one of these things just doesn't belong here
Now it's time to play our game!!
lol
G-Systems15th Feb 2010
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