Friday, June 3, 2011

Gmail broken Chinese Hacker -E-mail accounts of senior officials from the U.S. and hundreds of other important figures in peril

Google once again could not circumvent the Chinese hacking attacks. After the tragedy of late 2009,when the hackers from the country of origin stubborn Baidu had managed to break into Google's system and steal the codes is important,now the service provider of electronic mail (e-mail) Gmail became targets.
Target break-no kidding. Page Wall Street Journal (WSJ) today reported that the email accounts of senior officials from the U.S.and hundreds of other important figures in jeopardy.
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The victims,including state and military officials, bureaucrats Asia, Chinese activists and journalists, teperdaya give their Gmail account password to cyber criminals based in mainland China, according to Google's statement as written in the WSJ. The aim is to spread e-mail attack victim to certain addresses.

Suspicion is directed to the hackers who dwells in Jinan, capital of Shandong Province, eastern China.

In Washington, the United States, agency investigators FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and the U.S. State Department was shoulder to shoulder investigate this case. "We do not believe there is an official email account owned by U.S. government officials who breached," said Caitlin Hayden of the U.S. National Security Council to the WSJ.

Jinan, which is located about 400 kilometers south of Beijing, is the headquarters of the bureaus of technical surveillance of the People's Liberation Army, one of the largest armies in the world.

Previously, Mila Parker, a security researcher in Washington, Google would have warned the threat of attack. Mila managed to save examples of emails that he was identified through routine observation and he called the attack "man-in-the-mailbox."

The method used by the sender: email accounts of victims and their contacts in it seized and used to convince other potential victims.

According to him, as revealed in the pages of New York Times, was "not new or cutting-edge ways," but "spreading invasive."

He then handed me a fake document entitled "Draft US-China Joint Statement" (draft Cooperation Agreement US-China) that is spread through e-mail account in the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency and Gmail.

When the user tries to download the document, they will be herded into a fake Gmail homepage that will steal your password.

That incident will certainly further increase the pressure on cyberwar issues. The U.S. government this week will decide that cyber attacks are classified as "war".

Meanwhile, British Defence Secretary, Nick Harvey said, as quoted from the pages of The Guardian, "any activity in cyberspace will slowly form a kind of battlefield of the future."