[ISN] Industry chain behind hacker attacks on government websites

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:09:56 -0600 (CST)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-03/31/c_13806104.htm

English.news.cn 
2011-03-31

BEIJING, March 31 (Xinhuanet) -- Two young men, Fan Dongdong and Wen 
Chao, who have only a junior high school education, received 18- and 
12-month sentences for hacking into the website of the country's Supreme 
People's Procuratorate, the top agency for legal supervision, and more 
than a dozen other government websites.

Xin Zuguo, a judge with the People's Court of Chaoyang District in 
Beijing, said this was not an isolated case. From May 10 to 16 of last 
year, 81 government websites on the mainland were hacked and altered, 
including four ministry-level websites, according to the National 
Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center 
of China (CNCERT/CC).

The rampant hacking against government websites is aimed at making 
illegal profits, and an "industry chain" already exists, Xinhua 
reported.

The hackers can make money by putting illegal links on the government 
websites.

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