Reported a few days ago on Chinese hacker squeegee men and it seems like they are not very welcome in China. An unidentified technology security company in Shanghai was busted for their unique brand of marketing. A salesman would come calling and explain the horrors some online game companies experience through DDOS attack:
Oh, and did he forget to mention his company just happens to sell firewalls? Probably a good idea to purchase this magic firewall because if you don’t, well a couple of days later…you experience those horrors he tried to protect you against. Police decided to investigate and Manager Luo and Saleman Li were arrested. Turns out, they were in it for the money. Go figure.One section I couldn’t figure out involved a scene
talking about the Shanghai company and this website:
This is Chinahacker.com, a member of the Red Hacker Alliance, that I go to every now and then. Exactly why they are used in the video to show where you can download DDOS attack software is still not clear, but no worries, I checked on the site and it is still up and running. Recent posts as of today, which is their yesterday…damn, International Dateline!
It is rare to find mention of the role women play in Chinese hacker society, so I was surprised to find a page dedicated to the “Six Golden Flowers.” The text written on the pictures gives a small history of their years in hacking but little else.
I am mainly going to order this video for the technical information it contains.
No, really. Okay, some might consider this a frivolous post but think about it, how much reign of destruction can you stand to read. Besides, can you name any other Chinese hacker movie that received 83% on the Tomatometer…didn’t think so.
Here is the review:
Synopsis:
The brothers Chow Nunn and Chow Lui’s giant computer company is facing a tense crisis – a powerful computer virus is rapidly wiping out their computer network. At the last minute a cyber-friend arrives to join the battle. The mysterious “Angel.com” battles the virus and saves the company. Invited by Chow Lui for a visit in person, Angel.com arrives in the form of the beautiful Lynn (Shu Qi). But it turns out Lynn is a professional assassin with amazing high-tech and kung fu skills.
You read that right, “a professional assassin with amazing high-tech and KUNG FU skills.” Read the rest here…
Know yourself and know your enemy and in 100 battles you will never be in peril.
-Sun Zi
Well, that includes understanding the culture of your adversary. This week’s installment of Chinese hacker
culture is their brand of nationalist hip-hop. The girl, who looks bored out of her mind the whole video, is playing a couple of cuts that sound pretty good even if you don’t speak Chinese. Hell, I could only understand about 1 in 5 words, but that is about the same for US hip-hop, so I don’t feel too bad.
Most of the lines are talking about how great Chinese hackers are and that they should all band together to defend China from the outside world. One section talks about Hackbase and China Eagle. Somehow, and I don’t know why, they managed to work in Trojans to the song. Couldn’t really understand it though.
This was more than likely a message to the rest of the Red Hacker Alliance that we do not hack inside China or there will be consequences. According to the video, it wasn’t just money that Heikeba was after but fame played a large part as well. The downfall seems to have come when they decided to break into banks inside of China and steal from Chinese citizens. That my friends is a no-no!
Also, it is not nice to attach Trojans to music and picture downloads.
This is the part I’m not completely clear on and if someone who has better ears than I do can provide clarification it would be really appreciated. The police discovered that the site was spread out across 15 cities inside of China. Here is the difficult part, they found records on the site dealing with New York, London and Paris and something about logging into the sites at the same time which seemed impossible or only slightly possible. There is some discussion of time-zones and logging into them at the same time.
Difficult to tell if they are saying Heikeba was responsible for hacking into
websites in these cities. Hopefully, we can get a little help here.
There once was a website named heikeba.com (黑客吧), but alas no more. The site was run by three Hangzhou University students named Lin Yupeng (林宇鹏), Lin Cailong(林才龙) and Yao Pingqiang (姚平强). These young entrepreneurs dealt in massive numbers of Trojans. Reports have stated that they had an extensive collection of malware and at the time of the website’s demise, there were over 500 for sale. Heikeba.com had over 25,000 registered users and 100 VIP members. Toward the end, the site was averaging around US $2,700 a month and in less than nine months since its start in January of 2007, had made close to US $14,000.
So, what happened to heikeba.com? It seems that on 13 September 2007, the group was actually arrested and taken away by police for selling illegal programs. According to Liu Yuechuan (刘悦川), the police officer who conducted the investigation, he used VIP membership to get into the site and was shocked that it contained so many Trojans. He was also amazed at the number of viruses hidden on the site. The website was considered one of the largest distributors of malware in the country.
What makes this so unusual is that it hardly ever happens and certainly not
with this much publicity. There is hardly a Chinese hacker website that doesn’t sale or distribute some sort of malicious program and you don’t need VIP membership to discover it. What these guys really did or who they angered is still a mystery. Maybe it was just time to set an example.
Here is the CCTV special on the investigation and the arrest. It has a lot more details and I will do my best to give you an updated gist of the program.
Never heard of this, don’t know what to make of it, not sure I even care. Anti-Fans, a phenomenon that began in Korea where large numbers of “Anti-Fans” seek to just trash and even poison celebrities. Number one targets are singers and dancers. So, the good news…it has spread to China!
This is the Taiwanese band F-4 and they got hacked by Chinese anti-fans for referring to Taiwan as a country while fiming a commercial for tourism. (Have to admit, a lot of boy-bands here in the US could use a good hacking…just kidding…sort of.)
Chinese actress Zhao Wei targeted by Chinese anti-fans for…too much hotness? No, she wore the Japanese flag.
Artist Wang Xinling, just a little too cutesy for some fans. They are anti-fans due to her winky-hand-movey antics on stage.
And for the most disturbing of all, they claim to be the Bin Laden for celebrities.
A posting at Sam, Saman, Samantha’s blog sums up my feelings quite well. But, just because they seem to have gone way past the deep end of the pool, doesn’t mean they can’t make a semi-rocking video! Enjoy (fair warning, the thing loads slow, slow, I mean really slow):
This video was produced by iDefense; these guys are the best in the business when it comes to research on Chinese hackers. It also features Lion (Lin Yong) leader of the Honker Union of China.
Hat-tip again to Jumper
He informs me that it was produced by Discovery…still great video!
The documentary below was posted on Youku (Chinese Youtube) in May of 2007. It is a CCTV 10 documentary that features Wan Tao, the leader of China Eagle, covering the history of the Red Hacker Alliance. The clip is 36 minutes long, so I’m not going to translate it but I did want to post it to show an example of what we can learn using open source information. All of the history that he talks about here is covered in my book but it is interesting to note how open they are about the subject. You can see just about all the defacements seen in the video at the my Flickr site located on the right in the navigation buttons.
If you are just interested in seeing an honest to goodness famous Chinese hacker, Wan Tao begins speaking at 2 minutes 24 seconds into the video and then throughout. Warning, it loads really slow. One of the other reasons I don’t want to spend a lot of time translating.
