"After initial investigations when the group widened it research it found that the China-based cyber espionage had hacked computer systems of embassies of India, Pakistan, Germany, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea and many other countries.
In all, the hackers had gained access to 1,295 computer systems of foreign ministries of many countries, including Bhutan, Bangladesh, Latvia, Indonesia, Iran, and the Philippines, the researchers said.
After gaining access to foreign government and private computer systems, the hackers installed malware to exercise control over these computer systems to access any documents."
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Chinese hack into Indian embassies, steal Dalai Lama’s documents (worldwide Hack attack)
Economic Times of India ^ | 03.29.09
Posted on March 28, 2009 10:03:16 PM PDT by Perdogg
A China-based cyber spy network has hacked into government and private systems in 103 countries, including those of many Indian embassies and the Dalai Lama, an Internet research group said here Saturday.
The Information Warfare Monitor (IWM), which carried out an extensive 10-month research on cyber spy activities emanating from China, said the hacked systems include the computers of Indian embassies and offices of the Dalai Lama.
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Embassy of Portugal in India Serving Malware
DANCHO DANCHEV’s Blog ^ | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2009 | Dancho Danchev
Posted on March 25, 2009 4:29:32 PM PDT by Cindy
Yet another embassy web site is falling victim into a malware attack serving Adobe exploits to its visitors. As of last Friday, the official web site of the Embassy of Portugal in India has been compromised (embportindia.co.in). Who’s behind the attack? Interestingly, that’s the very same group that compromised the Azerbaijanian Embassies in Pakistan and Hungary earlier this month. Assessing this campaign once again establishes a direct connection with the Rusian Business Network’s pre-shutdown netblocks and static locations.
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Ethiopian Embassy in Washington D.C. Serving Malware
Dancho Danchev’s Blog ^ | March 18, 2009 | Dancho Danchev
Posted on March 23, 2009 2:36:40 PM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: “Oops, they keep doing it again and again. The web site of the Ethiopian Embassy in Washington D.C (ethiopianembassy.org) has been compromised and is currently iFrame-ed to point to a live exploits serving URL on behalf of Russian cybercriminals, naturally in a multitasking mode since the iFrame used to act as a redirector in several other malware campaigns.
Despite that the iFrame domain (1tvv .com/index.php) is already “taken care of”, details on the original campaign can still be provided.”
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Azerbaijanian Embassies in Pakistan and Hungary Serving Malware
DANCHO DANCHEV’s Blog ^ | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2009 | Dancho Danchev
Posted on March 17, 2009 12:13:51 AM PDT by Cindy
The very latest addition to the “Compromised International Embassies Series” are the Hungarian and Pakistani embassies of the Republic of Azerbaijan, which are currently iFramed with exploits-serving domains.
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Embassy of Brazil in India Compromised
DDANCHEV.blogspot.com ^ | November 13, 2008 | Dancho Danchev
Posted on November 17, 2008 1:36:22 PM PST by Cindy
Only an amateur or unethical competition would embedd malicious links at the Embassy of Brazil in India’s site, referencing their online community. With the chances of an Embassy involvement into the fake antivirus software industry close to zero, let’s assess the attack
Posted by at Thursday, November 13, 2008
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And hillary is busy giving the Chicom Masters lewinskys
Don’t these people ever update their firewall, antivirus, and antispyware software? That should be done EVERY DAY, as well as checking for Microsoft Security updates. Also, they could turn their computers OFF when not actually using them.
Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries
[the Chinese government was involved......]
New York Times
Posted on 03/28/2009 11:21:15 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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