Google Warns Vietnam About Fake Software

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On Tuesday, Google expert Neel Mehta said: 'In January, we had a discussion about sophisticated cyberattacks originating in China and targeting a lot of businesses around the world. gender. We have also collected information on more simple individual hazards'

Last week, Google stopped censoring search engines in China, partly because of cyber attacks in late 2009.

Although Vietnam 's command and control servers use several domains like Google attacks , security company McAfee believes that Vietnamese botnets are not related. Some documents originally thought to be Google-related in practice are related to counterfeit software in Vietnam.

Vietnamese counterfeit software began to spread from the end of 2009 when the Vietnamese Professionals Society website was compromised and the download link for this site was replaced by a program infected with Trojan horse virus. George Kurtz, CTO of McAffe said, ' We believe the culprit of the incident is political .' His company has also investigated whether so-called Aurora attacks attacked Google and other companies.

Mehta said DDoS attacks are linked to Vietnam's botnets ' to end the opposition to bauxite mining in Vietnam. This is an important and sensitive issue in this country. '

The Vietnamese government is cooperating with Chinese partners to build bauxite mining areas in central Vietnam central regions. Many people are concerned that this will cause environmental disasters caused by toxic gases from bauxite mines. Bauxite is used to produce aluminum.

Google rarely warns about such types of counterfeit software, but in one of its messages, its spokesperson said it decided to publish the above information 'because we felt the use of these It is particularly bad to fake software to track computer users and engage in attacking blogs that contain content of political dissent . '