China hacker industry chain loses 7.6 billion annually

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The 33-Year-old Zhan Kaike now relies on selling malicious hacking software, phishing and other ways to earn millions of dollars and pay for their expensive golf-year tickets. He used to be a programmer for a domestic network security company. As a "destructive" hackers have formed a huge industrial chain, according to the National Computer Network Emergency Center estimates that the current "hacker industry" the annual output value of more than 238 million yuan, resulting in losses as high as 7.6 billion yuan.

Thief

"Hang a horse" steal valuable information

"Online Banking, game passwords and other valuable information is becoming the preferred target of illegal hackers." "The Hu Shansheng researcher, chief scientist of the Network Security Laboratory of the Institute of High Energy Physics of CAS, says that illegal hackers usually implant Trojan programs in sites with security vulnerabilities and indirectly infect viewers." In addition, the sending of spam, the use of Instant messaging tools and Third-party software, hackers are the main way to insert the Trojan program.

An official of the Ministry of Public Security's network safety watchdog said that at present, the cyber crime of stealing valuable information by hacking has been in the trend of group. December 16, 2007, Jiangsu Police successfully cracked the "3 5" large online bank theft. The group of 8 members on the Internet to create a virtual identity, the division of labor is clear: someone to make Trojan virus, someone responsible for collecting information, some people based on information to make a bank card, there are people to withdraw cash, collect stolen goods, in less than a year in total theft of more than 3 million yuan.

In addition to bank account information, a higher level of QQ numbers, online game accounts and other virtual property is the target of hackers coveted. High-level hackers will steal the valuable information sent to the retailer in bulk, retailers will be these QQ numbers, network game accounts through BBS, e-commerce sites, such as channels sold, earning tens of thousands of yuan a month is very easy.

Businessman

"Gun sellers" sell tools for profiteering

Trojan Horse program, is illegal hackers steal valuable information important tools, natural priceless. This has spawned another large group of hackers-selling guns.

"Gun sellers are a group of advanced hackers with the ability to write viruses that make hacking tools and sell them to downstream buyers," he said. ”

Hu Shansheng introduced, 2007, endanger the domestic millions of people and enterprise user network security "Panda incense" virus manufacturer Li June, daily income near million, after the crime has profited tens of millions.

Teachers

Hacker training is also a cash cow

"Many hackers can earn millions of dollars a salary." "It is this high income and luxurious life that make a huge appeal to young people," Hu Shansheng. Therefore, all kinds of "hacker training course" came into being. These "hacker training course" Teaching content almost contains a variety of viruses, Trojan production technology and a variety of network attack technology, training prices from hundreds of yuan to nearly million. In particular, many hacker training sites are using the "MLM" organization model: Advanced hackers successful training "apprentice" after the arrangement of "Apprentice" development offline.

Killer

Hackers hired as cyber killers

Compared with the "thief hackers" who specialize in stealing valuable information on the Internet, and the "gun sellers" peddling hacker tools, some hackers are becoming "online hire killers".

May 19, from 21:50 to 24 o'clock, Jiangsu, Anhui, Guangxi, Hainan, Gansu, Zhejiang and other 6 provinces and a rare event, a large number of Internet users can not normally visit the website. Subsequently, the Public security organs criminal detention of 4 suspects.

There is a hacker crime fact behind the network incident: Some businesses are employing hackers to launch cyber attacks in an attack against rivals. These hackers often hijacked a large number of infected computers, known as the "chicken", together to launch large-scale hacker attacks.

The network game is the fault of the market. Because of the interests of disputes, the phenomenon of mutual fire is very common. Some people in the industry said that some of the strength of the "servers" every month will spend 2 million or 3 million yuan to combat competitors.

There are also businesses outside of online gaming that employ hackers to attack each other. Last July, Shandong Weifang Two logistics companies because of the existence of commercial competition, a company in order to rob customer resources, employing hackers to invade a large area of networked computers, resulting in the city 400,000 netcom users one months can not be normal Internet.