A major Chinese hacking group spotted

A major Chinese hacking group spotted -

20
September
2013

computer security experts tracked a group of advanced hackers selling their service was in charge of key cyber-espionage attacks from China in recent years.

Symantec Corp. has announced that expert hacker group called "Hidden Lynx," was known to be running many operations of cyber espionage on China, without it linked to the Chinese government .

28 pages of the Symantec report explains that the hidden Lynx group may have been involved in Operation Aurora attacks in 09, the most famous case of cyber espionage against US companies.

Indeed, during Operation Aurora, hackers attacked Google Inc. and several other companies such as Adobe Systems Inc. Google announced the attacks in January 2010, explaining that some cybercriminals have tried to read Gmail communications of human rights activists and they have also tried to access and modify the source code of target companies.

Another study, published in February from the US computer security firm Mandiant said a secret unit of the Chinese army was engaged in spying on US companies. The Chinese government has denied the accusations well.
Symantec further explained that this hidden Lynx group is based in China, where much of the infrastructure used to execute attacks and is due to malicious software was written with Chinese tools and code. The company also provided details of who is behind several recent attacks, including a violation of the firm Bit9 Cyber ​​Security and its customers.

It also connects hidden Lynx in a major campaign called Voho, which was discovered in 2012 by the RSA security company. Voho targeted hundreds of organizations in various sectors :. financial institutions, technology, health, defense and government event

Symantec finally explained that the group Invisible Lynx is a "professional organization" with 50 to 100 staff members, bringing together diverse skills and knowledge :. network vulnerabilities to steal data

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