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Hackers Aligned With Vietnam Government Are Attacking Foreign Companies (cnbc.com)
A hacker group "aligned with Vietnamese government interests" carried out attacks on corporate companies, journalists and overseas governments over the past three years, according to a report from cyber security firm FireEye. FireEye, which works with large companies to secure their assets from cyber threats, said it has tracked at least 10 separate attacks from the group -- referred to as OceanLotus, or APT32 -- since 2014. Targets included members of the media, and private and public sector organizations from across Germany, China, the U.S., the Philippines, the UK and Vietnam itself, according to the report. From an article: APT refers to advanced persistent threat -- one that involves a continuous hacking process using sophisticated techniques that exploit vulnerabilities within a network. Nick Carr, a senior manager at FireEye's Mandiant team that responds to threats and incidents, told CNBC what set APT32 apart from other groups was the kind of information the hackers were looking for within a company's breached network. "Several cases here, it appears APT32 was conducting intrusions to investigate the victims' operations and assess their adherence to regulations," Carr said. "That's where it starts to be really unusual and is a significant departure from the wide-scale intellectual property theft and espionage that you see from a Chinese group, or political espionage or information operations from a Russian group." To be clear, the attacks carried out by APT32 are unrelated to the WannaCry ransomware that has hit 200,000 victims in at least 150 countries since Friday.
A recruiter sent me to FireEye to figure out why the hiring manager kept rejecting highly qualified job candidates in 2014. I went in, had the interview, and reported back. The company was in pre-IPO mode, which means they were extra sensitive about doing anything that might jeopardize the IPO. The hiring manager wanted a computer engineer at a help desk tech rate. I didn't get the job since I was asking for $50K per year and they wanted to pay $20K per year. Don't know if they ever filled that position.
Wait, what?! Vietnam? As in, "Viet-fuckin'-NAM"? Like in Forrest Gump -- THAT Vietnam?
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OMG!
That's SKEERY!!!!
RUSSIANS!!!!!!!!!!
RUSSIAN HACKERS!!!!!!
Somebody alert the New York Times and The Washington Post!!!!
This shouldn't surprise anyone but it is definitely interesting news. If your competition gets buried in regulatory fines and other burdens to its operation, it may be the edge you needed. If your company is playing by the rules and your competition is not adhering to the same rules, it is hardly fair competition. Hacking into another companies computer systems is illegal but so is not following business regulations. It doesn't surprise me a company would just to discredit their competition.
Airing out someone's dirty laundry isn't nice, but cheating the world to get ahead isn't nice either.
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... the entire stream of news about this sort of thing is full of scaremongering and scarewords of convenience, but very little actual fact. Call me when you have something substantial to report, CNBC, and msmash, and all the other content-free "news" beings. Or at least when you're honest enough to admit that you know jack shit and report that, and then you start finding actual hard facts to report.
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Hackers Aligned With Vietnam Government
You wouldn't say "China government" or "France government." The word is "Vietnamese."
You also wouldn't capitalise "Aligned" or "With" if you were writing like a normal person... down with title case!
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just wondering. I can't help but remember continual pounding by the VC on US forces at that base back in the days. Even with superior firepower of US military, the attacks continued until the US decided to pull out.
The internet is based on hops, little hops from one system to another. It would be a little silly to make a termination node at the point they actually take the data. Instead they will probably take in the middle somewhere. Termination nodes normally indicate a patsy.
Take the Sony Hack, they blamed North Korea because there was an IP address that had been hard coded. Chances are that was misdirection, because it is very obvious to a coder when they do that. And in a way it doesn't really matter if it is hard coded or injected in, it will be there somewhere. Data doesn't just magically appear, it has to be input at some point.
When something gets hard coded, it just make it a bit annoying to change the value if you want to. But hey ho, instead let's risk a nuclear war over the matter.
Please do not repeat this neocon BS on this technology forum.
I'm not saying it's good or even justified but it's not surprising the Vietnamese government is a little paranoid about outsiders considering what foreigners have done to them, within living memory.
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