Chinese Hackers Linked To Months-long Attack on Taiwanese Financial Sector (therecord.media) 22
A hacking group affiliated with the Chinese government is believed to have carried out a months-long attack against Taiwan's financial sector by leveraging a vulnerability in a security software solution used by roughly 80% of all local financial organizations. From a report: The attacks are believed to have started at the end of November 2021 and were still taking place this month, according to a report shared with The Record today by Taiwanese security firm CyCraft. The company attributed the intrusions -- which it tracked under the codename of Operation Cache Panda -- to a well-known Chinese cyber-espionage group known in the cybersecurity industry as APT10. The security firm told The Record in an interview earlier today that it couldn't share the name of the product exploited in the current attacks because of the ongoing law enforcement investigation and because of the efforts to have a patch released and installed across the local financial sector.
Unsurprising (Score:5, Funny)
This is completely unsurprising.
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Antifa are our stormtroopers.
They prefer to be called Brownshirts.
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Antifa are our stormtroopers.
Well, because you brought it up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
The too long; didn't watch: In 2017 group of antifa demonstrators were marching in downtown Phoenix carrying assault rifles and wearing, among other things, brown shirts, much like the real storm troopers did [wikipedia.org]. They didn't like that a New Times reporter, who self identifies as left wing, was filming them, so they assaulted him and demanded that he show them his papers.
Yeah...that's Antifa. Remind you of anyone?
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Because the only people I see cheering for Russia and pro-Russian, forcing a "us vs. them" mentality, have been friends and allies to authoritarian/dictatorships, and want to re-write/reframe history to eliminate historical wrongs so they are bound to be repeated, and seemingly are desirable of US authoritarian persons, and have been working hard to undermine democracy and voting so that LESS people are engaged and represented are the right wing conservatives.
Everything
What? (Score:5, Funny)
No, it couldn't be! Someone obviously made a mistake. I mean, it's not like a brutal dictator rules China and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. /s
CCP shills: mod me down!
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But an attack trying to disrupt the financial system of Taiwan? You already know that's going to be China.
Re:Evidence || GTFO (Score:4, Insightful)
The constant attempted hacking by China (and many others) on the various sectors are "routine" (its sad to say that, but its true).. no specific malice other than the usual one-upsmanship that all countries do to hurt/wound others to give them a leg up. (I'm in security and the number of probes and low level attacks I see on a hourly basis coming from various state actors (let alone independent groups) is staggering.
Taiwan is a special case for several reasons:
1: China views Taiwan as theirs and so wants them to kowtow (peacefully or as a broken shell, they don't really care how they come) and "unify" and will use EVERY trick/tool/influence to hurt Taiwan in order to make them weak. (China has pretty much forced many of Taiwan's trade partners and to abandon them in favour of China, leaving Taiwan isolated and ripe for the taking).
2: Taiwan is also a close US ally and gives the US a favorable partner (economically, politically, and militarily) in the pacific where they don't have one.. (Japan is more of a neutral party but is favorable to the US because of the treaty's they signed, South Korea is a neutral party with economic ties to the US, Vietnam is the same but is more favourable to China right now, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, and the Philippines are in the same boat as Vietnam ("Neutral" but favouring China due to the influx of money)).. so any economic hurting of Taiwan is also a double whammy since it also hurts the US and other economic allies of Taiwan (cost efficient hurting).
3: Related to number 3, its also a little revenge on Taiwan (given its history and political relation with China).
4: Taiwan also suffers from what's pretty much going on in the US now, which is a generational shift that never experienced the pain/hardship from China before and so are pushing for unification because they see it as a way to make more money. (In the US, because the current generation (and those under it) have not experienced the same wars and problems our grandparents lived through, they are falling into the same mental traps that enabled the rise of problems that created the various world wars and just local dictatorships/fascism.. both countries are having their respective pasts "modified" to fit a narrative for those in power (or want to take over) so that they seem like the lessor evil than what they are.
So this is why China's hacking attacks on Taiwan is a more than the usual hacks that constantly go on. (take a look at what happened/is happening right now with Hong Kong to see that the way of life there is pretty much erased and made to look more like mainland china that the local governments are simply puppets to Beijing now).
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No they aren't. Right now they're rather wary about China and trying to play both sides with the US and Russia (e.g. strengthening trade with the US while allowing Russia to operate out of their air bases).
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That's a fancy way of saying you don't have any evidence.
It is possible that China attacked Taiwanese banks in this way, and they have motive. But other groups could have hacked Taiwanese banks in this way, too. If you don't have evidence, you have to say, "I don't know who did it."
Got to employ those jobless engineers somehow! (Score:1)