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Hong Kong Stock Exchange Hacked, Halts Trading on Some Stocks

by Max Eddy | 10:05 am, August 11th

On Wednesday the Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd., operator of one of the largest stock exchanges in the world, halted trading for several companies after its website suffered a malicious attack. The attack is currently under investigation, and though trading has resumed on all companies the exact motive behind the attack is yet unknown.

Trading was halted on five companies, all of which were publishing information on the HKE corporate filings website. When higher than normal traffic was reported on the site, the operators opted to halt trading citing concern that traders would not have access to timely or reliable information about the companies. In the meantime, HKE went old-school Internet and set up on an online bulletin-board system for posting such information.

Concerns have risen about cyber attacks across the world, and China is hardly immune. The country claimed to be victim to nearly 500,000 malicious attacks last year alone, reminding the world that anyone and everyone is a possible target.

(via Bloomberg)

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Shady RAT: The Huge, Scary, Cyber Attack Operation You’ve Never Heard Of

by Max Eddy | 12:20 pm, August 9th

Last week, cyber security firm McAffee exposed a massive cyber attack operation as an object lesson for individuals, companies, and world governments to show that everyone is at risk. In a post written by Dmitri Alperovitch, McAffee’s VP of Threat Research, the logs of a Remote Access Tool (RAT) revealed that over 70 organizations had been infiltrated in the last five years through a single, coordinated effort. It has been named Operation Shady RAT.

According to the McAffee report, Shady RAT appears to be a case of national espionage. The list of breached systems runs the gambit from national governments (including the United States, Canada, India, Vietnam, and Taiwan), defense contractors, communications organizations, international sports organizations, and even real estate companies.

While 70-odd intrusions may not seem like much — after all, we’ve discussed botnets with millions of infected computers in the past. However, these are not the brute-force denial of service attacks or mere LulzCannon-ings, but sophisticated and long-term intrusions. For instance, McAffee says that the shortest intrusion lasted one month, while the longest-running operation went on for some 28 months within the International Olympic Committee.

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