The Dark Visitor » Industry http://www.thedarkvisitor.com Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:15:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Chinese hacker virus industry chain http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2008/05/chinese-hacker-virus-industry-chain/ http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2008/05/chinese-hacker-virus-industry-chain/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 02:01:39 +0000 Heike http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/?p=538 Used this chart was from IT Rising’s 2007 report on the computer virus epidemic:

To create this crappier but English version of the chart:

]]> http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2008/05/chinese-hacker-virus-industry-chain/feed/ 1 Chinese hacker Industry http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2008/02/chinese-hacker-industry/ http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2008/02/chinese-hacker-industry/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:53:08 +0000 Heike http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/?p=366 I’ve written before about the entrepreneurial nature of Chinese hackers but not sure if it is enough to make the point. This is a big industry with big profits and the money is not just made from illegal activities; they have created a market for anything dealing with Chinese hacker culture.

Just to give you a better example of what I am talking about, I have created a collage of the monthly magazine Hacker Handbook published by nohack.cn.  Remember, this is just one hacker website and there are hundreds of them.

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Nohack’s entire collection of hacker magazines is available for sale at Taobao.

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