The Dark Visitor

We have posted about Chinese hackers and the World Bank before.  This was just a “shot” at the China World bank website.  Sorry, couldn’t resist.

As of writing, the webpage is still not repaired.

Chinese hackers?  Don’t know for sure but the screenshot was found on a Chinese hacker webpage.

At least there seems to be evidence that two of the six major attacks originated from IP addresses inside of China:

In total, at least six major intrusions — two of them using the same group of IP addresses originating from China — have been detected at the World Bank since the summer of 2007, with the most recent breach occurring just last month.

In a frantic midnight e-mail to colleagues, the bank’s senior technology manager referred to the situation as an “unprecedented crisis.” In fact, it may be the worst security breach ever at a global financial institution. And it has left bank officials scrambling to try to understand the nature of the year-long cyber-assault, while also trying to keep the news from leaking to the public.