Hackers, big profits gainers
Shi Xiaohong, chief technician with 360.cn, a leading online safety company in China, expressed his opinion of the matter as follows.
Hackers usually do not change or cancel the information, but resell it to other people to make profits. In this way, they fall outside the ambit of the current law. To put Trojans, most of which are used to steal information or remotely control the computers, on a certain web page is the most common way to steal information from a personal computer.
According to the reference document from the NPC, police handled an online crime in May. More than 3.8 million computers were invaded by the criminal. To make profits, these computers, called “corpse computers”, are often used to send massive amounts of spam or to launch a focused attack against a certain network.
In Shi’s opinion, the writing and spreading of Trojans, as well as the selling of stolen information, have become a complete business line. Since the latter half of last year, the spread of Trojans and malicious software has exploded. So far this year, 360.cn has intercepted 8.8 million Trojans and malicious software, about 10 times the figure in 2007.
A complete business line has been formed including the writing and spreading of Trojans, as well as the selling of stolen information. We may see from the MPS figures that the Internet supervision bureau has handled seven major Trojan cases this year, and suspects in each of case made at least 10 million yuan ($1.46 million) by merely selling Trojans. Under the estimation of the bureau, the Trojans gained more than 2 billion yuan ($290 million) from the illegal profit by selling information in all the seven cases.
The rampancy of some crimes is resulted from the absence of appropriate laws, said Yu Zhigang, an online-crime scholar at the Chinese University of Political Science and Law. In his opinion, the clear definition of such actions as crimes will deal a heavy blow to this underground industry.
Xu Min, a safety expert with an Internet security company in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, said that as the crimes are acted online, it will be difficult for the police to obtain evidence and handle such cases even with legal backing.
“To root out such crimes, both the police and the public should learn more about the Internet, and raise their awareness of suspicious online activities,” he said.
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