Defeat China's Largest Hacker Training Furnace

Chinese police have closed the website to recruit thousands of members and provide training on cyber attacks and malicious code.

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In the form of a security website called Black Hawk Safety Net , suspects have used this website to provide training courses on network attacks, providing programs, attack software and many other activities violate China's newly revised and supplemented Criminal Law. The entire property worth about $ 250,000 of this network has also been blocked.

According to the Hubei Provincial Public Security Bureau, the website has been subjected to authorities' suspicions after revealing connections to virus and web attacks in Macheng City in 2007. In the past In the investigation, Chinese police arrested some suspects who were the culprits of the attacks and received testimony that they were members of the Black Hawk Safety Net.

The Hubei authorities called the Black Hawk Safety Net the 'largest hacker training institute in China '. The selected members will participate in training courses on hacking techniques, virus writing techniques, trojans. and exchanging ' skills ' together through online forums.

Since its founding (in 2005), the Black Hawk Safety Net has recruited more than 12,000 registered members and has earned more than 7 million yuan (about $ 1 million) from membership fees while there About 170,000 people are registered as free members, the daily said.

The report said police seized 9 servers, 5 computers and a car, and closed all websites related to this hacker training website. The authorities also frozen 1.7 million yuan (US $ 250,000) of bank accounts related to the operation of the website.

More than 50 Chinese computer police have been mobilized for this campaign. (Photo: China Daily)

" I can download trojans that allow other people to take control of the computer. I often ' attack for fun ' but many other members earn the whole family of these types of attacks. " A 23-year-old Black Hawk Safety Net member is currently living in Nanjing City.

" Making hacks is not so difficult and I know there are a lot of minors who have dropped out of school and made money by stealing other people's accounts ," the member continued to reveal.

Another university student said, he used to register as a member of 3 other hacker training websites. Each training course typically costs between 100 and 200 yuan.

' Often, students will be taught how to steal someone else's account with a trojan program but sometimes they are taught how to write a program like that, ' the student revealed., ' But now it is much harder to register as a member of the web to train hackers. Some well-known sites were not accessible since last November . '

China said it was the biggest victim of cyber attacks. Last year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China reported hacker attacks that disrupted the operation of 42,000 websites .

According to China's National Computer Emergency Response and Coordination Center report, China's " hacker industry " has cost the country about 7.6 billion yuan a year.