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Security Companies Team Up, Take Down Chinese Hacking Group

Posted by samzenpus on from the end-of-the-line dept.

daten writes A coalition of security companies has hit a sophisticated hacking group in China with a heavy blow. The effort is detailed in a report released today by Novetta. The coalition, which calls itself Operation SMN, detected and cleaned up malicious code on 43,000 computers worldwide that were targeted by Axiom, an incredibly sophisticated organization that has been stealing intellectual property for more than six years. The group united as part of Microsoft's Coordinated Malware Eradication (CME) campaign against Hikit (a.k.a. Hikiti), the custom malware often used by Axiom to burrow into organizations, exfiltrate data, and evade detection, sometimes for years.

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  1. Re:6 years of hacking with the same malware? by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A sane hacking group would just use the existing hack until it fails, while keeping the new tricks in reserve. Expect more, better hacks from the hackers. They've had a while to work on them.

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  2. Re:6 years of hacking with the same malware? by SeaFox · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Any hacker group that relies on the same malware code on their hacking, for 6 year straight, deserves no respect

    Aren't they just being efficient. If it ain't broke, don't fix it?

  3. Chinese government complicity by Ritz_Just_Ritz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why don't they come out and call a spade a spade...the Chinese government aids, at worst, or allows, at best, this activity. Ask anyone who has spent any time living in China. It's pretty difficult to do anything that they don't like and if when you do manage to circumvent the rules, it's only because you're greasing the palms of someone inside the government. "Hacking group".....riiiiiiiiiight. (rolling eyes)

    1. Re:Chinese government complicity by s.petry · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Solution: Nuke em. Now where are my mod points and donuts? (You didn't claim it needed to be "good" solution.)

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  4. Why is this not escalated? by XB-70 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    We pay a fortune in taxes for government agencies: INTERPOL, FBI, RCMP, NSA, CSIS, CIA etc. etc.

    It is disgraceful that a consortium of PRIVATE companies has to tackle this issue when there is clear violation of any number of laws at stake.

    Get to work, you government agencies, and, instead of spying on your fellow countrymen, do your job.

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