{"id":51066,"date":"2016-03-15T22:57:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T20:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=51066"},"modified":"2016-03-15T22:57:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T20:57:43","slug":"u-s-ransomware-attacks-linked-to-chinese-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=51066","title":{"rendered":"U.S. ransomware attacks linked to Chinese hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"story-deck\" dir=\"ltr\">Security researchers suspect Chinese hackers are short of work due to government pact with U.S.<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hackers using tactics and tools\u00a0previously associated with Chinese government-supported computer\u00a0network intrusions have joined the booming cybercrime industry\u00a0of\u00a0ransomware, four \u00a0security firms that investigated attacks on\u00a0U.S. companies said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ransomware, which involves encrypting a target&#8217;s computer\u00a0files and then demanding payment to unlock them, has\u00a0generally\u00a0been considered the domain of run-of-the-mill cyber criminals.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But executives of the security firms have seen a level of\u00a0sophistication in at least a half dozen cases over the last<br \/>\nthree months akin to those used in state-sponsored attacks,\u00a0including techniques to gain entry and move around the\u00a0networks,\u00a0as well as the software used to manage intrusions.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;It is obviously a group of skilled operators that have\u00a0some amount of experience conducting intrusions,&#8221; said Phil<br \/>\nBurdette, who heads an incident response team at Dell\u00a0SecureWorks.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Burdette\u00a0said his team was called in on three cases in as\u00a0many months where hackers spread\u00a0ransomware\u00a0after exploiting\u00a0known vulnerabilities in application servers. From there, the\u00a0hackers tricked more than 100 computers in each of the companies\u00a0into installing the malicious programs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The victims included a transportation company and a\u00a0technology firm that had 30 per cent of its machines captured.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u200bSecurity firms Attack Research, InGuardians and G-C\u00a0Partners, said they had separately investigated three other\u00a0similar ransomware attacks since December.<\/p>\n<div class=\"figure\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<figure style=\"width: 506px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.3290121.1445941399!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_620\/southchinasea-usa.jpg\" alt=\"SOUTHCHINASEA-USA\/\" width=\"506\" height=\"379\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang, said China did not have time to respond to what he called &#8216;rumours and speculation&#8217; about the country&#8217;s online activities.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Although they cannot be positive, the companies concluded\u00a0that all were the work of a known advanced threat group from\u00a0China, Attack Research Chief Executive Val Smith told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The ransomware attacks have not previously been reported.\u00a0None of the companies that were victims of the hackers agreed to\u00a0be identified publicly.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">China calls allegations &#8216;rumours and speculation&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Asked about the allegations, China&#8217;s Foreign Ministry said\u00a0on Tuesday that if they were made with a &#8220;serious attitude&#8221; and\u00a0reliable proof, China would treat the matter seriously.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But ministry spokesman Lu Kang said China did not have time\u00a0to respond to what he called &#8220;rumours and speculation&#8221; about the\u00a0country&#8217;s online activities.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The security companies investigating the advanced ransomware\u00a0intrusions have various theories about what is behind them, but\u00a0they do not have proof and they have not come to any firm\u00a0conclusions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"figure\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<figure style=\"width: 523px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.2608322.1397342273!\/cpImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_620\/cyberfile-security-threat-20121219.jpg\" alt=\"Cyberfile Security Threat 20121219\" width=\"523\" height=\"419\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ransomware operators generally set modest prices that many victims are willing to pay, and they usually do decrypt the files, which ensures that victims will post positively online about the transaction, making the next victims who research their predicament more willing to pay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Most of the theories flow from the possibility that the\u00a0Chinese government has reduced its support for economic<br \/>\nespionage, which it pledged to oppose in an agreement with the\u00a0United States late last year. Some U.S. companies have reported a\u00a0decline in Chinese hacking since the agreement.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Smith said some government hackers or contractors could be\u00a0out of work or with reduced work and looking to supplement their\u00a0income via ransomware.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It is also possible, Burdette said, that companies which had\u00a0been penetrated for trade secrets or other reasons in the past\u00a0were now being abandoned as China backs away, and that spies or\u00a0their associates were taking as much as they could on the way\u00a0out. In one of Dell&#8217;s cases, the means of access by the team\u00a0spreading ransomware was established in 2013.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The cyber security experts could not completely rule out\u00a0more prosaic explanations, such as the possibility that ordinary\u00a0criminals had improved their skills and bought tools previously\u00a0used only by governments.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dell said that some of the malicious software had been\u00a0associated by other security firms with a group dubbed Codoso,\u00a0which has a record of years of attacks of interest to the\u00a0Chinese government, including those on U.S. defense companies\u00a0and sites that draw Chinese minorities.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">Payment in bitcoin<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ransomware has been around for years, spread by some of the\u00a0same people that previously installed fake antivirus programs on\u00a0home computers and badgered the victims into paying to remove\u00a0imaginary threats.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the past two years, better encryption techniques have\u00a0often made it impossible for victims to regain access to their<br \/>\nfiles without cooperation from the hackers. Many ransomware\u00a0payments are made in the virtual currency Bitcoin and remain\u00a0secret, but institutions including a Los Angeles hospital have \u00a0gone public about ransomware attacks.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ransomware operators generally set modest prices that many\u00a0victims are willing to pay, and they usually do decrypt the\u00a0files, which ensures that victims will post positively online\u00a0about the transaction, making the next victims who research\u00a0their predicament more willing to pay.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Security software companies have warned that because the\u00a0aggregate payoffs for ransomware gangs are increasing, more\u00a0criminals will shift to it from credit card theft and other\u00a0complicated scams.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The involvement of more sophisticated hackers also promises\u00a0to intensify the threat.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">InGuardians CEO Jimmy Alderson said one of the cases his\u00a0company investigated appeared to have been launched with online\u00a0credentials stolen six months earlier in a suspected espionage\u00a0hack of the sort typically called an Advanced Persistent Threat,\u00a0or APT.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The tactics of getting access to these networks are APT\u00a0tactics, but instead of going further in to sit and listen<br \/>\nstealthily, they are used for smash-and-grab,&#8221; Alderson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security researchers suspect Chinese hackers are short of work due to government pact with U.S. Hackers using tactics and tools\u00a0previously associated with Chinese government-supported computer\u00a0network intrusions have joined the booming cybercrime industry\u00a0of\u00a0ransomware, four \u00a0security firms that investigated attacks on\u00a0U.S. companies said. 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