The Dark Visitor

Enjoy the sound of Chinese hacker music!

This first cut is the best; you can practically feel the patriotic blood stir. It comes from the website, Chinahacker.com and is titled 黑客联盟背景音乐 (Hacker Alliance Background Music). It is carried on a number of the hacker websites.

Click here to listen (Hacker Alliance Background music)

This next one is the theme song from China Eagle Union. It is called, 黑夜的力量 (Power of the Night). Here are the Chinese and English lyrics:

我们在黑夜里逆风飞行 我们是黑 夜里的中国之鹰 我们用黑夜里黑 色的眼睛迎接光明的来临 我们在网 络里自由飞行我们是网络里的中国 之鹰我们用网络里寂寞的黑夜迎接 黎明的来临感受黑夜的力量用我黑 色的眼睛热血在黑夜里慢慢凝聚希 望在黑夜中寻觅我们是中国的鹰派 我们要做中国的精英不管敌人的盾 牌是多么的坚硬我们要让他知道我 们的锐利我们是中国的鹰派我们要 做民族的精英所有正义的人们给了 我们力量和勇气我们会永远战斗不 息

“We are flying against the wind in the night. We are the China Eagles of the night. We use our black night eyes to greet the approaching light. We are flying freely through the net. We are the China Eagles of the net. We use the lonely nighttime of the net to greet the approaching daybreak. Feel the power of the night. Use my black eyes. The hot-blood slowly thickens in the night. Searching for hope in the middle of the night. We are the China Eagles. We want to be the elite of China. It doesn’t matter how hard the enemy’s shield is, we want him to know our sharpness. We are the China Eagles. We want to be the elite of the nation. All the just people have given us strength and courage. We can fight forever and never rest.”

Note on the translation: The “dark eyes” might be translated as “hacker eyes” I finally decided on dark eyes for the translation but still switch back and forth…sigh.

Brought to you by our good friend Wan Tao (Leader of China Eagle Union):

Click here to listen (China Eagle Theme Song)

Patriotic Virus? NOT GOOD!

        While as English speakers were are being given a temporary reprieve, I wouldn’t count on that holding. The time it takes to convert the virus to smashing computers with registry in English..5,4,3,2 boom!

         The article below suggests this is not a good English translation (Your luck’s so good!) for the caption but I think it is better than the one they provide. Based off the Chinese text I was able to locate on the virus, probably the best translation would be would be, “You are very lucky!”

        This picture was sans caption and a little harder to translate but is something like, “You sure aren’t pretty but you are very patriotic!”

Many of the Chinese websites do refer to this as the “Patriotic Virus,” but it has also been rendered, “The Angry Youth” Virus (愤青病毒).

          (From China Digital Times) Recently, a special “intelligent” virus has emerged from the Chinese Internet. This Win32/KillDPT virus can decide to suspend the operating system or create intrusive damage based on different languages used on the computer, to ensure the use of the simplified Chinese character system. Some bloggers call it “the patriotic virus.”

According to a Beijing anti-virus center, the virus will first read the registry keys and judge the operating system type. If it is a simplified Chinese operating system, the virus will automatically withdraw from the operation and have no effect on the computer. If it uses Japanese or Indonesian language operating systems, the the virus will destroy the hard disk by filling the computer with garbage data and restarting the system. The result is the computer becomes completely paralyzed. If it is an English system, the sentence, “Your luck’s so good!” will pop up on the screen (This is obvious Chinglish; the literal translation should be “you’ll be very lucky”.)

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Misadventures in Finding Chinese Farmers

        No, Chinese farmers are not part of the Chinese hacker community but are often associated with them. It seems that the hackers decided rather than spending their days fighting, collecting or fishing for virtual items, it was just easier to hijack accounts and steal them. Well, even that was a little too much work and they decided to hold the secondary market for ransom.

DoS attack cripples $1 billion virtual games trade

“A massive denial of service attack has disabled some of the world’s largest virtual goods trading sites. The Korea-based sites hit by the attack are responsible for a substantial portion of the country’s estimated $1bn trade in virtual gold, weapons and other items for games like World of Warcraft.

Spokesmen for some of the trading sites affected, which include ItemBay, ItemMania, ItemPF and ItemRia initially claimed that they were offline for technical reasons, local media report. Later, ItemRia admitted in an online notice that the outages have been caused by a flood of traffic, apparently directed by hackers. An ItemPF spokesperson has since made a similar admission, according to local media. Continue Reading »

Hunt for a hacker

First stop is the website Zone-h.cn, exactly nothing like the other Zone-h. It collects screenshots of websites hacked both inside and outside of China. Even though their banner claims to be only of Chinese hacked websites.

While looking around the site I notice the Top 10 teams located on the left side. When you click on one of the teams it lists all of the website hacks they have submitted; not the ones the have hacked…cough…just submitted. This is clearly stated at the bottom in the disclaimer. They have simply been in the vicinity of the hacking or heard about it and reported the incident. You might even call them good citizens.

The Wuhan Cyber Police let me know they were watching. Fear inspiring.

The team in the number two position, C.H.K. listed a lot of submissions from a guy named 无情的风 Merciless wind.

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Chinese Hackers Using Youtube for Training?

Well at least the Chinese version of Youtube…

        Decided to look at different methods the Red Hacker Alliance might use for for communications and in searching was introduced to Youku.com. From most accounts, Youku is one of about five versions of Chinese Youtube. In the past, all of my research into Chinese hackers has been done by looking at hacker web sites and I feel a little foolish that I haven’t thought of looking at sites like this before…sigh. Putting in the a simple search of 黑客 (hacker), Youku returned 1,173 hits and 680 related videos. Most of the videos were of the movie Matrix, Chinese hackers love that movie but there were also quite a few instructional videos on hacking techniques.

        The video below was posted by “Yousea” and gives the process for creating a hacker dictionary using a program called netXeyes.

        Being a linguist, I have no idea if this a sophisticated program or not. What is important here is that the hackers are using different methods for training. They have sold DVDs and downloads to train for quite some time but this is certainly an expansion into other areas.
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Evolution of the Red Hacker Alliance

Timeline Chart

        Based on available data, it is the author’s opinion that the Red Hacker Alliance first came into existence in 1998. This was the year that ethnic riots in Jakarta, Indonesia served as a catalyst to bring together existing independent hacker elements and fuse them into a cohesive unit under the banner of nationalism. During this time period, previously independent web sites actively formed connecting links with each other and coordinated attacks against Indonesian government web sites to protest the brutal treatment of ethnic Chinese. Sharp Winner’s comments related to the event demonstrate that this is the earliest appearance of the concept and term Red Hacker:

“A group of patriotic youth active on the net engaged in attacks on Indonesian government web sites, under the alias ‘China Redhackers.’ This patriotic action received a great deal of reporting and praise in the domestic and overseas media. The name China Redhackers began here.”

Chu Tianbi’s historical account claims that it was after the 1999 US bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia that created the alliance and when their first web site appeared: Continue Reading »