China’s “GhostNet” Steals Secrets from 100 Countries
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Mar 30, 2009 02:30 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, China, Crime, Espionage, Hacking, Internet, Technology, Tibet
China has been implicated in a global online spying network which infected some 1,300 government computers from over a hundred nations; the network, dubbed “GhostNet”, stole industrial and commercial secrets but also targeted Tibet and Taiwan.
The computers compromised included those from a variety of embassies and ministries the world over.
The infiltration appears to have been perpetrated by way of the same malware technology used to orchestrate similar crimes, such as the creation of botnets for Distributed Denial of Service Attacks.
The network was uncovered by the investigations of the Information Warfare Monitor, a group which analyses the latest events in state hacking; their investigation lasted 10 months and was prompted by a request from the Dalai Lama’s staff to check their computers.
Reportedly, ministries in Iran, Bangladesh, Latvia, Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei, Barbados and Bhutan had their computers compromised, whilst embassies belonging to India, South Korea, Indonesia, Romania, Cyprus, Malta, Thailand, Taiwan, Portugal, Germany and Pakistan were also affected.
The intrusions and information gathering apparently targeted predominantly Asian governments, with much of the activity amounting to “industrial espionage”, but much attention appears to have been directed towards Tibetan groups.
The IWM is concerned that this information in particular constitutes “actionable intelligence for use by the police and security services of a repressive state, with potentially fatal consequences for those exposed.”
Via the BBC.
Certainly this brings a whole new meaning to the term “spyware”…
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the China topic is getting cliché... can we move on already???
This article creates too much racial stereotypes against the Chinese.
Everyone got so racial on this baseless claim.
no more talk, just finish China, and we all get peace.
As a Chinese, I think this is the best way to get the pure SankakuComplex back.
Very soon there will be a special channel named as China's shit.
Come on , everybody should take ur 'gun' to shoot China. Then u will get ride of cheap damm poor products, Endless internet attack, the news that u lost ur job because they find replacement in China.
Make sure not only shoot down the gov, bu also the Chinese. Otherwise u will get 1/3 of the whole propulation of the world. They will eat ur food, take ur air and shit in ur place.
Also don't forget to use all ur money to buy the gold, because the US doller will become a piece of shit itself after the China has gone.
God bless all but no Chinese.
From a technologically-backward shithole country like the Failippines, teh Chinks won't be able to get anything from it. :|
Revenge for the ZTE deal?
I find it hard not to have a big problem with the government of PRC when I already have a lot to say about my own "liberal democratic" western government. China will remain a benchmark of political criticisms for the politically liberal as long as it remains the benchmark of authoritarianism. Some call it "China bashing" but as far as a liberal like me is concerned, bashing authoritarianism is totally warranted. I don't "bash" the regime of China because it's of China, I "bash" it because of its draconian authoritarianism. To all your ultra-nationalists out there, please stop thinking 傻逼老外 (fucking stupid foreigners), there are people out there who just aren't cool with the way your government governs people.
You don't have to be an ultra-nationalist to defend China, if someone talks shit about you it's only natural to react in the same way isn't it?
why do you assume it's "natural"? are you trying to climb a new height in callousness or something? assuming how you feel is the same as how everyone else feels... i know i wouldnt give a flying toss if someone "talks shit" about me, or my country O_o only retards "talk shit" and "react in the same way"
That's simply blind chauvinism. To me there is a difference between you, China, and the Chinese government. If you can't distinguish that, and consider defending the Chinese government as defending China, consider defending Chinese government as defending yourself, defending China as defending yourself then I'd definitely consider you an ultra-nationalist. I wouldn't defend Australia if as a nation it has done something which I consider wrong, I wouldn't defend the Australian government if it has done something objectionable to me, in fact I'm very vocal in my personal life in criticising what I consider the misconduct of my country, or any other country, be it China or USA. That's what I call freedom. If you think like that too, and consider your government has done no wrong, there there is something fundamentally irreconciliable bteween you and me and I will no hesitate to "bash" you AND your government because in that case both you and your government represent the kind of draconian authoritarianism I resent.
spyware that comes from china has melamine in it, it's also high in lead content...
please don't use it...
Happy April Fools
Happy? since when its a happy day?
*Pats China on the back* Any country that has the balls to do that I admire. Its high time for an eastern superpower, and nothing will satisfy me more than the fall of America!
i told Artefact the other day to quit politicking. he didn't listen.
protip: if i want more China-hating, i would go to Slashdot (or the nearest real-life public space. but hey, i'm a hikki.)
good you don't make the rules here.
lol they steal porn also :x
Epic picture is epic.
The yomi net, it is real!!!
I wish i had a nuke.
chinese takeover of asia in
3
2
1
....
That's pretty scary. But kinda saw this coming with Comand and conquer generals zero hour. China has hackers that steal cash. It's annoying but the GLA is still my favorite team. XD
Tibet is a lost cause and was never that great a country
FREE TAIWAN!
Taiwan is a Free province of China :3
Tell that to the Taiwanese and see how many agree with that?
well, they liked the panda's ^^
ANd they beg us to stop talking shit about them.. but they deserve it >3
Just throw more MMORPGS at them, than they have no chance !
It was discovered by researchers from the University of Toronto! Go Canadian counter-espionage!!! Proud day to be a Canadian, lol
So what is this, the 17th time this week where China's been in the news about the internet?
It's hard to ignore 1 billion+ chinks.
Lol government spying through the net? Nothing new here, the only thing that would be new is getting caught XD. As long as UK government was in their target and hopefully be enough to stop or divert attention from loli ban and censoring anime/manga/comic books...Huzzah! Screw the New Labour! Funny how the source is BBC being a UK network, but at the same time we've become a Big Brother State.
The BBC is run by leftists who'll excoriate anyone who threatens their precious Dalai Lama.
lol, it was discovered by researchers from the University of Toronto! Go Canadian Counter Espionage!!! Proud of my country for once in a blue moon.
Read up on Canadian history. You have got even more reasons to be proud of Canada.
On the other hand, read up on the current Canadian Minister of Science and his understanding of the concept of evolution, and you'll immediately want to make yourself (or better yet, the current incumbent of the aforementioned post) taller again.
I hope that these Chinese will not have deleted the lolis of the cristina´s laptop...
In China: "with great power come great conspiracy"
China is starting shit np
Inb4 war
Naw, just another big propaganda and Artefact felt right into it that's all. Anyone with a brian can see it as propaganda article and won't bothing posting it on their site/blogs.
i has no brian. i is sad.
I think there is a brian at my work, but I don't know how you're gonna get him.
where can I get a brian.
I have a brian, but I don't think you want him.
And after a few days of gathering data,
The RoC will mass reproduce "Tesla tanks"
and "Kirov airships" thus starting the World war 3
(Or 4)
0_o Scarrryyyy!
Please do not refer to mainland China as "RoC". "RoC"/"Republic of China" is commonly used to refer to "Taiwan", whereas "PRC"/"People's Republic of China" is used to refer to.. well, the "communist mainland China".
More like Taiwan is part of China anyway, am i rite? I THINK SO.
taht Taiwanese is a very cool guy, eh isn't part of China and doesn;t afraid of anything
Because the previous one was inept. More of going with that one didn't work than what this one leans to.
really? why has the PPL chosen a communist government this time?
Oh noes, I smell a taiwanese...
What a shocking tale. As if it hasn't already been done by 27 countries before.
China stole the idea of stealing :o
oh, one more thing. Why the China gov didn't block here? Why it still let the Chinese people give Artefact more hit to earn money? So damm stupid.
once again, die~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Chinese.
no more talk, just finish China, and we all get peace.
As a Chinese, I think this is the best way to get the pure SankakuComplex back.
Very soon there will be a special channel named as China’s shit.
Come on , everybody should take ur ‘gun’ to shoot China. Then u will get ride of cheap damm poor products, Endless internet attack, the news that u lost ur job because they find replacement in China.
Make sure not only shoot down the gov, bu also the Chinese. Otherwise u will get 1/3 of the whole propulation of the world. They will eat ur food, take ur air and shit in ur place.
Also don’t forget to use all ur money to buy the gold, because the US doller will become a piece of shit itself after the China has gone.
God bless all but no Chinese.
2/10 for trolling & 7/10 for racial stereotyping and abuse
tsk tsk
Yes, True, but what world will do? Start a war lol? (even my toilet paper is made in china)
War? lol... China would own the surrounding countries the way things are going these days.
sorry, but PC parts are less common "Made in China" anymore. it's more of "Made in Taiwan" and a few other countrys
don't forget you precious PC >_>
Yeah, I'm sure the CIA will sue them for copyright infringement. :D
No, you mean the NSA, plus its pretty obvious the american government has the monoply on spying on American citizens. Gotta love that Patriot Act
Not fucking surprising given the fact that the United States' director of IT for Homeland Security was an ex-Microsoft employee. Why they continue to use an insecure operating system for its day-to-day operations is beyond me. This should be a wake up call for them. Use Linux. Use Mac. Use anything but Microsoft.
I'd use linux if only it weren't so complicated and so hard to use/understand. I'd use macs if only they didn't suck sweaty monkey balls.
>I’d use linux if only it weren’t so complicated
Get Ubuntu. It is easy as bukkake.
LOL Windows
u cant hack or nothin, I got norton!
DCC SEND startkeylogger 0 0 0
* World has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer)
whats with china these days?
They're trying to get shit done before they collapse. You know, sorta like a bucket list.
How do you know they're gonna collapse? Just because they're communist? They're not gonna collapse just because they're communist or just because the USSR did if that's what you're thinking. Things aren't that simple you idiot.
Seems more like preparations for something big...
I roflold
Someone seriously needs to backhand China across the face.
Seriously.
I rofled
I loled
C-C-C-C-Combo-Breakeeer!!!!
More like: Suddenly! Hydrogen bombs for everyone!
Gundam Shenlong.
And suddenly, SCUD Missiles! over 9 trillion of them!
Yeah right, Chinese are the first ones who realize that spy on the internet is an awesome idea.The guys who invented computer, internet and virus didn't even imagine about it.
Since when "anti-china" news generate more mouse clicking than Anime news?
The use of spyware in real-life politics is nothing new, but still alarming all the same.
It is very easy to fall into the trap that is to accuse the Chinese government of doing it. They could always blame it on some "patriotic hackers" and say they have nothing to do with it whatsoever.
We are discussing about the way a loli channel wwwwwwwwwebsite became a china slander anthem broadcast box.
Everything said was exactly true.
Which just proves that lots of people have already fallen to that trap. The Chinese government is denying all responsibility (as usual). But for all we know, it could be some hackers from an unknown party.
Sankakucomplex is full of racist retards? Some news.
No one here is racist, we are only being critical of the PRC's totalitarianism and economic system. We may joke, but we harbor no hate against the Chinese or the communists.
I wouldn't say this site is using propaganda. Well not directly anyway. If anything the propaganda is created through ignorant Commenter’s, who are desperate for attention further creating a 'gang' mind set and further throwing fuel into the fire. In a way the 'Broken Window' effect of Sociology. You could say this is the 'Moral Panic' of Sankaku Complex as well haha, asshats over-exaggerating (some for lulz with no real intention of being prejudice) things, too stupid to realize how hypocritical they are or how vague/broad their own comments are sometimes, or even because they don't do their research and thus make quick but stupid generalizations.
Think of it this way, Artefact sells us fireworks (articles) to people (us). The sane ones fire them into the sky, observe it and move on. While the childish retards get all giddy over one type of firework, end up throwing them at each other and all over the place, while blowing their own hands off because of their own ignorance. Now because there are usually plenty of retards who buy the fireworks and are obsessed with a particuar one when available, of course Artefact is going to sell them, since he simply gains from it. Kind of like fish lured by their favorite bait while the internet being the sea and the fisher reaps from it. The more fish he reaps in using one bait, why not carry on using the same bait? Of course something different is good from time to time, if not you could saturate the target. Another analogy; Artefact is the shepherd and the idiots are the sheep.
TBH it's no different than the whole 'Terrorist' thing a couple years back. Anything with brown people instantly became a bullying session of uneducated morons. Not surprisingly most of them are 'Anonymous' who are too scared to openly say such things in reality because they know they'll get lynched by the majority of people (depending where you are), so what better way to do it than through the net. As I explained in a previous comment how racism can stem from fear, or low self-esteem. Some however are just trolls. Well that's my take on it :P
I wouldn't say Sankaku Complex is a China slander broadcast box, it's a site that compromised it's mission statement in order to get more hits/visitors through unrelated (to anime) articles, some of which include China slandering.
Actually, I should say libel instead of slander, since it's in written form.
Lemme see. I count 16 recent news items, 3 of which are remotely about China (1 of which is about N. Korea selling sex slaves TO China).
Wow, imagine 18% of the news on this site being about the country with half the world's population (and an aggressive military dictatorship in all but name that's within disturbingly close proximity to the main country of interest to this site).
Blows your mind away, doesn't it?
China’s “GhostNet” Steals Secrets from 100 Countries
North Korean Sex Slaves Sell for $450 [ subtle china slander ]
Executions Attract Thousands
China Terrified of Online Gaming
China Blocks YouTube
World’s Filthiest ATM
Ladies Hounded From Hanami for Wearing Kimono
Shameless Mother
China Pirates Train
Woman Bathes Family with Breast Milk
Yaoi Stamps
Ultimate Net Café
In the single first page of the articles tagged with "China". I'll let you digress on the rate of the funny articles against the serious wwwwwwwwusiness.
"If China does things as a country that cast it in a negative light, that’s nobody’s fault but China. "
Some of the reports about China are based on fact, but the person who wrote the report makes it sounds like China is the only country that has these kind of problem which is not true at all.
>Some of the reports about China are based on fact, but the person who wrote the report makes it sounds like China is the only country that has these kind of problem which is not true at all.
Of course a few other countries have some similar problems to those in China the posts address. The reason why Artefact does not prefix each and every article with such a disclaimer is that he assumes that readers of this site are not the kind of tabloid-reading mouthbreathers who think that just because examples from other areas of the world are not mentioned, they do not exist.
Mebby it is because China is Evil...
I won't consider China as evil, I say China is paranoid, just like the USSR back when it was under Stalin (thank the Emperor for Gorbachev). They are paranoid of outside attacks (though not to the extent of North Korea, who are still convinced that the Korean War isn't over yet) and the internet fueling anti-Chinese sentiment or 'enlighten' the masses that China isn't really as cranked out as they claim to the people. Hence all the wackiness we are seeing now. And the People of China's love for copying others made it all so much better.
Well, at least it is entertaining.
The term "slander" refers to statements that are untrue. The articles may contain some editorial hyperbole (MOST Sankaku articles do; it makes them entertaining to read), but they are based in fact.
If China does things as a country that cast it in a negative light, that's nobody's fault but China. Sankaku Complex is not somehow in the wrong for reporting on stories that users find interesting. The only complaint I've seen so far that is particularly valid is that Sankaku has expanded beyond its original mission statement. A fact which I don't think most users are really that upset about.
>> Since when “anti-china” news generate more mouse clicking than Anime news?
Since the time wwwwwww gave its way to serious business into weabooness. We may not wash everyday, but at least we have a political agenda!, you know.
Because the civilized world does not like China, ok?
I can see how civilized but ignorant you are
Because lolicon weaboos who fap all day in their parents' basements and don't contribute shit to civilization worship everything Japan-related and therefore do not like China, ok?
why is there so much anti-china these days?
He got you there.
Seconded.
Nice.
^This