The hackers are..Qq group(b) a traffic attack on a designated website at an hourly rate, which prevents the site from operating properly to help employers attack competitors in bad faith; orExtortionWhen attacked websites were not “soft” and protected, “rewards” were issued through multiple qq groups, employing multiple individuals to attack。
Such “businesses” occur in hundreds of qq groups, where “blackers” operate in ad hoc “teams”, frequently, and form a complete chain of industry: the group also offers free hacking software and related courses, “receivers” teach modus operandi and operate in the form of services purchased。
In the view of the civilian police, the perpetrators “have created a huge black force online”
News (www. Thepaper. Cn) was informed by the public security directorate of jiangsunantung city that in recent days it had uncovered a series of traffic attacks handled by the public security ministry, captured 12 suspects, including li, and seized 36 instruments, such as computers and mobile phones. On 11 july, the police of nantong made public details of the case and the contents of such crimes。
The electrician's website is under constant attack
On the day of the “two dozen” in 2017, one of the networks on the southern electrician website suddenly failed to open。
“on 12 december last year, at 2 p. M., it became impossible to open it, nor was it effective to upgrade it.” ms. Zhou said that, after screening, it had soon been discovered that the servers rented by the company had been subjected to hacker ddos attacks, that dozens of gs of garbage data were well above the server load limits, and that despite urgent measures such as purchasing protective software, spreading servers and so forth, the other party had detected and, through cc attacks, repeatedly accessed and squeezed the server resources, causing the website to collapse。
“this situation continued for almost two weeks, with hundreds of thousands of dollars spent just to upgrade protection.” the head of the network said that this was undoubtedly a huge blow to their companies, and that, in addition to direct losses, indirect losses such as loss of credibility, loss of businesses and customers were more incalculable。
Upon being told by the police, the investigation was conducted by the zongchuan substation of the public security bureau of nantung city. At that time, a similar attack was carried out on the website of another electrician. According to the nantung police, the company's website, mobile phones, and so on could not be opened, resulting in a direct loss of over $3 million to the company and over 2,000 sub-lined physical stores。
Two electricians were hacked. Is there a connection? According to the nantung police, after relevant information was provided to the units killed, the civilian police found some of the same sources of attack by analysing the ip address of the source of the traffic pack attack. On that occasion, the security unit of the nantung city public security bureau joined forces with more than 20 competent police officers to set up a task force to investigate the two cases. The case report has given rise to a high profile and has been listed by the ministry of public security as a registered supervisor。
A reward to hire a “player” to commit a crime
The head of the home network who was attacked recalled having received an anonymous telephone call prior to the incident, stating that he had been asked to attack the website of the home network, but that he had refused. The reminder was accompanied by the disclosure of the qqq number of the person who sought the hit man online. The staff of another electrician website, on the other hand, indicated that while the site was under attack, someone had asked for $20,000 through the twitter public number and left contact details。
According to the nantung police, on the basis of these leads, the task force quickly identified three suspects as chen, liu and li. After a few weeks, the team captured three people in guangdong yunfook, mezhou and shandong zinan. At the time of his arrest, a hacker website was landing outside the country in preparation for an attack on the target site。
“they hire ‘soldiers’ to commit crimes.” the police officer in charge of the case, lee sun-ling, described the website that had been attacked as having appeared in several “ddos pick-up” qq groups throughout the country, and the suspect, liu chiu, had “rewarded” for “players”。
Liu is only 17 years old and is enrolled in computer technology at a vocational school. “the domain name and the time, requirements and price of the attack on the site are usually first sent to the group for questioning.” according to liu, four of chen's hackers were engaged in a continuous attack on a home's web at a price ranging from $20 to $100 per hour. He met with someone like chen through qq。
“there are hundreds of such groups of qqs, whose membership is generally low in age, and the tendency to `de-technologicalize' the method of the operation is evident.” according to zhang jian, the head of the security unit of the south tong city public security bureau, the investigation found that the suspects were still minors and that they accounted for more than 60 per cent of the cases after 90 years and that they were unknown to each other, through social communication, price tagging, temporary “teams” and frequent attacks targeting various sectors, including e-commerce, government, medical and services。
According to the nantung police, the above-mentioned qq group has also provided free hacking software and related courses required to carry out the various acts, teaching methods in the name of “receivers” and carrying out the acts in the form of purchase of services, creating a complete chain of criminal industries。
“not only has the threshold of crime been lowered, but the level of social harm has increased.” chang jian。
It's bad competition, cyber blackmail
"someone contacted me and wanted to paralyse the website." liu chiu told me that he was doing his job with money. Through the leads provided by liu, the team quickly clarified that the “mixer” behind the hacking of the home-swipe network was a technology company that was also a home-swipe power company。
According to the nantung police, in order to expand the company's operations, the company's legal entities, after pre-meditation, paid $18,000 each to liu chii in order to keep the target site “sustained” for a long period of time. “i also asked them to attack two other websites.” according to him, in order not to arouse suspicion, he had initially even provided his company's website to hackers for attacks。
Since 11 january this year, an online chess game platform in south china has also been hacked and users have been unable to make regular landings. Following this report, the police in nantung captured five suspects, including xianxi jin city and guangxi guests. Chen et al. Were found to be the developer of another chess platform and, in order to crush their peers, hired to attack several other chess platforms by hacking。
According to zhang jian, in the series of cases uncovered by the police in nantung, the motive for the suspects to commit the crimes was in addition to malicious competition from their peers and cyber-extortion。
According to the suspect, li, he carried out a traffic attack on the electrician platform in order to extort money. After discovering that the target website did not “soft” but instead increased its protective measures, he issued a “reward” through various qq groups, employing multiple individuals to attack at a commission of $20 per hour。
“it can be said that a huge black force has developed online.” the commander of the law and order division of the public security bureau of nantung city, pham yong jian, believed that after the successful attack on the target website server, the suspect had resorted to extortion and continued attacks by “groups” until the website was paralysed if the site was not paid for. Not only did it cause enormous economic damage to the website, but it also caused serious damage to the business environment。
According to the relevant provisions of our criminal code, the removal, modification, increase or disruption of the functions of computer information systems, in violation of the provisions of the state, has resulted in the non-functioning of computer information systems, with serious consequences, which are punishable by imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or by detention, with particularly serious consequences, and by imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years。
According to the nantung police, the 12 suspects involved were currently subject to criminal coercive measures and the cases are still being investigated further。
