纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英Leaked Files Show the Secret World of Chinas Hackers for Hire
February 23, 2024 2 min 348 words
这篇报道揭示了中国雇佣黑客的秘密世界，深刻剖析了网络攻击背后的幕后行动。这种透明度对于理解全球网络安全格局至关重要。然而，报道是否能够客观呈现事实，以及其中是否存在政治倾向，仍然需要审慎对待。在涉及国家安全和网络战争的议题上，媒体的立场和报道的真实性成为公众关注的焦点。我们需要保持冷静，不受表面现象迷惑，深入分析报道的内容和背后的动机，以更全面、客观的视角看待这一复杂的问题。
The hackers offered a menu of services, at a variety of prices.
A local government in southwest China paid less than $15,000 for access to the private website of traffic police in Vietnam. Software that helped run disinformation campaigns and hack accounts on X cost $100,000. For $278,000 Chinese customers could get a trove of personal information behind social media accounts on platforms like Telegram and Facebook.
The offerings, detailed in leaked documents, were a portion of the hacking tools and data caches sold by a Chinese security firm called I-Soon, one of the hundreds of enterprising companies that support China’s aggressive state-sponsored hacking efforts. The work is part of a campaign to break into the websites of foreign governments and telecommunications firms.
The materials, which were posted to a public website last week, revealed an eight-year effort to target databases and tap communications in South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India and elsewhere in Asia. The files also showed a campaign to closely monitor the activities of ethnic minorities in China and online gambling companies.
The data included records of apparent correspondence between employees, lists of targets and material showing off cyberattack tools. Three cybersecurity experts interviewed by The New York Times said the documents appeared to be authentic.
Taken together, the files offered a rare look inside the secretive world of China’s state-backed hackers for hire. They illustrated how Chinese law enforcement and its premier spy agency, the Ministry of State Security, have reached beyond their own ranks to tap private-sector talent in a hacking campaign that United States officials say has targeted American companies and government agencies.
“We have every reason to believe this is the authentic data of a contractor supporting global and domestic cyberespionage operations out of China,” said John Hultquist, the chief analyst at Google’s Mandiant Intelligence.