GhostNet: Electronic Spying focuses on SE Asia, Discuss Options

[Faust]

Map of compromised computers and servers.

TORONTO: A vast electronic spying operation has infiltrated computers and has stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama, Canadian researchers have concluded.

In a report to be issued this weekend, the researchers said that the system was being controlled from computers based almost exclusively in China, but that they could not say conclusively that the Chinese government was involved.

The researchers, who are based at the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto, had been asked by the office of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader whom China regularly denounces, to examine its computers for signs of malicious software, or malware.

Their sleuthing opened a window into a broader operation that, in less than two years, has infiltrated at least 1,295 computers in 103 countries, including many belonging to embassies, foreign ministries and other government offices, as well as the Dalai Lama Tibetan exile centers in India, Brussels, London and New York.

The researchers, who have a record of detecting computer espionage, said they believed that in addition to the spying on the Dalai Lama, the system, which they called GhostNet, was focused on the governments of South Asian and Southeast Asian countries.

Full Article link http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/technology/29spy.html?hp



Edit: Looks to me, like Taiwan and Vietnam are the most compromised. Campared to Japan which has so little compromised computers....suggests to me that this is because of a lack of knowledge about security technology and practices. However Taiwan...which i believe is more advanced then say India or Vietnam...is an anomaly and thus gives me reason to believe this is a political and economically motivated interests...

Discuss...no trolls pls

- Faust

This post has been edited by Faust: Mar 28 2009, 08:10 PM

[Legion]

Chinese spies heh.

Should let them spy on you only with fake files.

[ltk]

Do we even have anything for people to spy on ?

[asean.asia]

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[beefnoodle]

Do we even have anything for people to spy on ?

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[jimm¥]

why are they spying on Ayers Rock?

[nguoiXau]

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