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Chinese Cyber-Espionage Group Hacked Government Data Center (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on from the tussle-continues dept.

Catalin Cimpanu, writing for BleepingComputer: A Chinese-linked cyber-espionage unit has hacked a data center belonging to a Central Asian country and has embedded malicious code on government sites. The hack of the data center happened sometime in mid-November 2017, according to a report published by Kaspersky Lab earlier this week. Experts assigned the codename of LuckyMouse to the group behind this hack, but they later realized the attackers were an older Chinese threat actor known under various names in the reports of other cyber-security firms, such as Emissary Panda, APT27, Threat Group 3390, Bronze Union, ZipToken, and Iron Tiger.

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  1. What's so special about this? by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 2

    If msmash had actually RTFA, she might have noticed (emphasis added):

    Another detail that also stood out was that LuckyMouse appears to have hacked a MikroTik router to host the command and control server of the HyperBro RAT. Attackers would use this router to control and retrieve data from infected victims, putting an additional layer of anonymity between them, victims, and forensic investigators.

    This is not the first time that nation-state hackers have used routers as part of their attack infrastructure, this being a very popular trend recently (let's not forget VPNFilter), but it is the first time they hosted a C&C server on one.

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    1. Re:What's so special about this? by phantomfive · · Score: 1

      This is not the first time that nation-state hackers have used routers as part of their attack infrastructure, this being a very popular trend recently

      Probably because Cisco stuff has garbage security.

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  2. Re:This doesn't make Chinese Gov look bad. by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 1

    What does this have to do with the US?

    I know I'm in the doghouse for actually RTFA, but did you even RTFS?

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  3. Re:This doesn't make Chinese Gov look bad. by Desler · · Score: 1

    How so? This involves China and some other Asian countries.

  4. In other news by Kargan · · Score: 1

    Water is wet.

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    1. Re: In other news by TimMD909 · · Score: 1

      That's not very inclusive. Other things are wet. Do you need re-education?

  5. Yeah? So what? by WindBourne · · Score: 1

    Likewise, we all breathed today. IOW, these ppl are doing what they should be.
    OTOH, China also remains the largest polluter and growing fast. Time for them to stop adding new coal plants.

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    1. Re:Yeah? So what? by CaffeinatedBacon · · Score: 1

      China still uses less coal electricity than America per person, along with less natural gas, and way less oil. Face it Windy, Americans use much more fossil fuels than Chinese people. It just looks like you are greener because there are less than a quarter as many of you.

      CO2 per person America is still at the very top.

      You should be focused on bringing America down to more sustainable levels, not blaming China for slowly catching up to you.

  6. Re:It's simple. by AHuxley · · Score: 1

    Canada shows the world its powerful new MCM/70 tech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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