[ISN] Suspected Chinese spear-phishing attacks continue to hit Gmail users

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 03:40:38 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219155/Suspected_Chinese_spear_phishing_attacks_continue_to_hit_Gmail_users

By Gregg Keizer
Computerworld
August 13, 2011

Months after Google said that Chinese hackers were targeting the Gmail 
accounts of senior U.S. government officials, attempts to hijack Gmail 
inboxes continue, a researcher said Thursday.

"Once compromises happen and are covered in the news, they do not 
disappear and attackers don't give up or stop. They continue their 
business as usual," said Mila Parkour, an independent security 
researcher based in Washington, D.C., on her Contagio Malware Dump 
website.

In early June, Google announced it had disrupted a targeted phishing 
campaign designed to compromise Gmail accounts belonging to senior U.S. 
and South Korean government officials, military personnel, Chinese 
activists and journalists. Google said it had traced the attacks to 
Jinan, China, a city in eastern China that has been linked to other 
hacking campaigns, including one in late 2009 against Google's own 
network.

Parkour had revealed details of the earlier phishing attacks months 
before Google's June announcement.

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