Hackers attack Web sites to extort money

Absrtact: A group of more than 20-year-old young people, through hacking attacks on the company's website, to 14 Hong Kong financial and securities investment companies to blackmail. August 9, "legal daily" reporters from the Hunan Provincial Public security bureau learned that lasted 3 months of hard investigation, 525 Hong Kong Gold

A group of more than 20-year-olds attacked the company's Web site by hacking, blackmailing 14 Hong Kong's financial and securities companies.

August 9, "Legal daily" reporter learned from the Hunan Provincial Public security Bureau, 3 months of painstaking investigation, "5 25" Hong Kong Financial Services site was illegally attacked extortion has been successfully broken, involving Hong Kong, Shanghai, Hubei, Hunan, Hebei and other sites of the cyber-attack extortion gang was destroyed, A total of 6 members of the gang arrested, including the main criminal suspects, 10 people, seizure, collection of vehicles, computers, bank cards and other criminal tools.

Hackers attack Web sites to extort money

Between February 2012 and March, 14 of Hong Kong's financial and securities investment companies ' websites were hacked, and customers were unable to access websites or conduct transactions. The criminal suspects use this to blackmail each company RMB 100,000 yuan to 300,000 yuan. Of these 4 companies to ensure the normal operation of the network, to the criminal suspects to provide the bank account for a total of 310,000 yuan.

After investigation, the suspect used for extortion bank account opened in Changsha, Hunan. March 9, received the Ministry of Public Security case briefing, Hunan Provincial public security Bureau quickly launched the investigation work.

Investigators found that the bank card in connection with a total of 8 times from February 2, 2012 to March 21 received remittances 260,000 yuan. Through the inquiry ATM machine withdrawal record and surveillance video, the initial confirmation of the withdrawal of the man as Guo.

The reporter learned that the criminal suspects in this case attack companies are members of the Hong Kong gold and silver trading field, the daily turnover of up to HK $44 billion. The criminal suspect's cyber-attack extortion has caused panic in Hong Kong's financial system and poses a serious threat to the normal trading activities of Hong Kong's financial sector.

May 24, the Ministry of Public Security formally listed the case as listed.

Due to the merits of the case, Hunan Provincial party committee, Yongkang secretary, Public Security Department director Jianguo, and other responsible for the rapid establishment of the project command to carry out the case detection work.

May 25, the Changsha Public Security Bureau Furong Branch officially on the case for investigation, by the Hunan Provincial Public Security Bureau Network Technology Corps, Changsha Municipal Public Security Network Technical detachment, Furong Public Security Bureau three level of public security departments composed of the Task Force, fully promote the project detection work.

Extortion gangs organized strict division of labor clear

According to the information provided by the Hong Kong police, investigators found a suspicious server with a physical address in Shanghai and identified the suspect by information comparison, thus finding a breakthrough in the case.

After investigation, preliminary judgement Guo is the case's key suspects, and gradually locked a hacker attack as a means of extortion of criminal gangs, its main members include Zhao, Shaw, Guo, Huang, and other people. The group is well-organized, clear division of work, there are specific attack plans and clear targets, even professional and technical personnel support.

June 20, in accordance with the unified deployment of the Ministry of Public Security and the Project command, in the relevant provinces and cities with the help of public security organs, Hunan Province Public Security organs launched a joint arrest action, one at a stroke, including 6 major crime suspects, including 10 members of the gang, the seizure of 3 vehicles, more than 20 computers, server source plate 1, bank card 33, Cash collected more than 10,000 yuan.

After the trial, the police mastered the gang suspected of attacking a number of domestic online games server, stealing game currency illegal profits of the crime facts.

"The ' 5 25 ' case is a vicious criminal case in which mainland outlaws attacked the Hong Kong Financial Services website for extortion." Wang, deputy director of Hunan Provincial Public Security Bureau, said the case was broken in time, not only to create a deep police co-operation between the mainland and Hong Kong, to jointly combat cyber crime, but also to maintain social stability and financial security in Hong Kong played a positive role.

The case is now being further processed.

Cyber attacks increase by 110% annually

Last year, 431 million people worldwide suffered from cyber crime, and about half of the victims (196 million) were from China. Almost every second, 14 people are victims of cyber crime.

According to data from the Ministry of Public Security, over the past 5 years, the number of viruses transmitted on the Internet in China has increased by an average of more than 80% per annum, and the public security organs have received an average annual growth of 110% of the cases related to cyber attacks.

"The investigation of cyber attacks is a worldwide problem." "Hunan Provincial Public Security Bureau Network Technical Corps deputy Captain Lei Weijun said, by summarizing the major cyber-attack cases detected in recent years, they found that cyber attack cases showed five trends in recent years, that is, the trend of profit-making is becoming more and more obvious, curiosity and exercise technology are becoming less and more; criminal gangs are becoming more and more organized and Cross-border Also formed a chain of interests, the threshold of crime gradually reduced, as long as the basic computer knowledge can use hacker tools to implement network attacks, personal user computers and intelligent terminals increasingly become the focus of network attacks, and gradually developed into internet pornography, extortion, fraud, infringement, Theft and other types of criminal activities to seek illegal benefits of the means.

"Only the formation of a multisectoral unison, internet companies and enterprises fully self-discipline to improve the regulatory system, in order to maximize the prevention and combat network-related crimes." "Lei Weijun suggests that effective containment of the spread of cyber-related crime requires strengthening technical precautions, strengthening safety education, perfecting the legal system, intensifying the crackdown, forming joint forces among various departments, and further strengthening international cooperation in combating cybercrime."