31 March 2012

China’s Tencent employee attacks Indian websites


Websites of Indian government and Tibetan activists in the country are under attack in a cyber attack campaign engineered by a Chinese hacker, working with one of the world's largest e-tailers Tencent.......................

The Luckycat cyber campaign, has been linked to 90 attacks in recent past against targets in India and Japan, as well as against Tibetan activists. 'Luckycat' has been able to compromise about 233 computers many of which are in India...............

The victims, include Indian military research organisations and shipping companies, besides aerospace, energy and engineering companies in Japan...........

The owner of the attack alias, according to online records, is Gu Kaiyuan, a former graduate student at Sichuan University, in Chengdu, China. The university receives government financing for its research in computer network defence. The hacker is now an employee at Tencent, China's leading internet company..............


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