China Acts on Training website for hackers : Shuts them down

The website closed down by China was beleived to be the among the biggest training website for hackers, this was reported by state media.

Accoring to them the website named Black Hawk Safety Net was giving lessons and selling downloads of malicious software. There people were arrested who were suspected of running the website. It was also said by Wuhan evening news that this traning program without any doubt recruited thousands of online members and trained them with cyber attack lessons and provided them with Trojan software.

This is not the first time someone has reported a Hacking problem in China, Internet Giant Google has perviously threatened to pull out of the country, Google said China based hackers attacked its operation but any involvement was denied by the Chinese government.

It is also being reported that till date the Black Hawk Safety Net had recruited more than 180 thousand free online members and almost 12000 paying subscribers. It is also been told that they have collected more than seven million yuan in membership fees. The website was providing its members with Deadly Trojans which can allow outside access to a computer when implanted.

It was not told when and how the Black Safety Net site was taken down, but it was not available on 08-feb monday.

Including some facts about china & cyber attacks :

China has some 350 million internet users – more than any other country – and provides a lucrative search-engine market worth an estimated One billion dollars lat year

In January Google threatened to pull out of China unless the government relented on censorship.

It said it had uncovered a computer attack that tried to plunder its software coding and the e-mail accounts of human rights activists protesting against Chinese policies.

Government officials have defended China’s online censorship and said the country is the biggest victim of web attacks.

By Shantanu Kaushik

news source : BBC