Chinese Hackers

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Chinese Hackers

Here I'll expose as many attempts the Chinese Army personnel or hackers have had to steal data and money or render some system useless. The intention is to let people become aware of this sad reality and the need to keep their PC's secure at all times.

Disclaimer

Any Chinese national or Taiwanese that has no ties to China's People's Liberation Army should not feel alluded here.

Blaster

According to court papers, the original Blaster was created after security researchers from the Chinese group Xfocus reverse engineered the original Microsoft patch that allowed for execution of the attack.

Link to the archived version of the original report


Titan Rain

It was a cyberattack orchestrated by the People's Liberation Army Unit 61398 that started harassing US and UK computer systems between 2003 and 2006. It is an event that forced several governments, including Russia, to take cybersecurity dead serious ever since.

Articles handling the Titan Rain event
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Rain
http://content.time.com/time/nation/arti...71,00.html
https://cyware.com/news/remembering-oper...n-c54ad3e4

Marriot Hotels - The largest hacking of hotel guest information
In 2017, Marriott Hotels experienced a much larger data breach exposing 500 million guests. That attack was linked to Chinese state-sponsored hackers.

"The F-35 Jet Hack"

Chinese jet shows off U.S. technology - February 2019
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201...f-us-tech/
The article sports a photo of a Chinese jet that seems to show off American technology being incorporated to its J-20 jet design.

APT41 and Its Bronze Atlas

Since January 2020 Chinese contractors took advantage of recently disclosed flaws in software developed by Cisco, Citrix and other companies in an attempt to break into scores of companies' networks in the United States, Canada, Britain, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and more than a dozen other countries. Their attacks do not discriminate any sector of the economy, including manufacturers, media companies, healthcare organizations and nonprofits among others.

US Cybersecurity Experts See Recent Spike in Chinese Digital Espionage
https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-cybersecu...-espionage

Pirate Panda

Suspected Chinese hackers are behind a phishing campaign apparently aimed at collecting data about Vietnamese government officials amid an ongoing territorial dispute between the two nations, according to new findings.

A hacking group known as Pirate Panda, which has possible ties to the Chinese government, is trying to trick Vietnamese government officials into clicking on malicious Microsoft Excel documents attached to emails purportedly detailing festivities for Vietnamese holidays, according to research the threat intelligence firm Anomali shared with CyberScoop.

Source: Tiny islands are at the heart of an uncovered Chinese phishing campaign
https://www.cyberscoop.com/south-china-s...g-vietnam/