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Chinese hackers…a dozen roses

Heike — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:47:41 +0000

This film came out on 19 June 2006, so it is a little old but has one, two or
three interesting things:

Running time: 67 minutes

Written by: Li Feng (Who also wrote Hero)

Backed by: The famous Beijing amatuer film organization BAERXIU Movie Club

Plot: Tieke, the proprietor of a computer company, is also the brains behind a secret hacker organization. He accepts a large sum of money from an unnamed organization to make preparations for a large-scale invasion campaign on the Japanese network using a virus he created called “The broken-hearted rose.”

The movie was not well received by some hackers and DVD fans…they hacked the movie’s website twice.

There was a TV show in 2002 on CCTV6 called the Rose hacker.

There is also a real Chinese Rose virus/trojan (rose.exe). Jingtian talks a little about on the Kaspersky forum here.

Of course the most famous Chinese hacker Rose, the Withered.

Why all this? Not sure, but started to see a lot of refs in Chinese to
rose hacker/virus this or that and now you have too.

Best (maybe only) English Language Video on Chinese Hackers

Heike — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:52:03 +0000

Hat-tip to Jumper

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!

Chinese Hacker Documentary

Heike — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:18:41 +0000

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 left 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.