Is China a (Digital) Threat to Global Health?

According to me USA wants to "bite" China somehow and is trying to find some excuses for it. Nowadays the hot topic is "Covid-19" between them.

But care must be taken in case of the allegations are true, the health care organizations and pharmaceutical companies DO have to be careful against the cyber threats,

(News from cyberscoop.com)

"The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI on Wednesday blamed hackers linked with the Chinese government for attempting to steal U.S. research into a coronavirus vaccine,..."

"The U.S. agencies accused Chinese hackers as well as spies of trying to pilfer intellectual property and other information related to coronavirus treatments."

"Beijing has denied all of those allegations. “It is immoral to target China with rumors and slanders in the absence of any evidence,” Zhao Lijian, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, said Monday after media reports that the DHS-FBI statement was imminent."

"...The Trump administration has accused Beijing of misleading the world about the virus’s severity, which first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The White House has also labeled the illness the “Chinese virus” as the U.S. federal government has struggled to respond to an outbreak that has infected some 1.4 million people in the U.S."

"Tonya Ugoretz, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division, said last month that state-sponsored hackers were spying on U.S. organizations researching the coronavirus, but did not name a specific government. Last week, cybersecurity officials from DHS and Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre echoed that warning by saying that spies are targeting multiple global health care organizations and pharmaceutical companies worldwide."

"This would not be the first time that Chinese hackers have been mobilized in Beijing’s response to a public health threat. Faced with a surging cancer rate in China, hackers have repeatedly targeted organizations conducting cancer research, according  to cybersecurity company FireEye."

(For more: https://www.cyberscoop.com/coronavirus-vaccine-china-hacking-dhs-fbi/)

ABD-Rusya Arası Siber Naneler

"Kopya çekmek serbest ama yakalanmamak şartıyla."

 

ABD'nin Rus avı sürüyor. ABD'de yaşamaya başlayıp, daha sonra da ABD vatandaşı olmuş olan "Russian-born", Alexander Tverdokhlebov isimli bir eleman, "wire fraud" suçundan dolayı 110 ay ceza aldı geçtiğimiz hafta. Kopya çekerken yakalandı yani. (Bu, medyaya düşen. Medyaya düşmeyen birçok olay olduğunu tahmin ediyorum.)

 

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/russian-born-cybercriminal-sentenced-over-nine-years-prison

http://www.darkreading.com/cloud/cybercriminal-with-ties-to-exclusive-russian-hacking-forums-sentenced-to-prison/d/d-id/1329313?

 

Hollywood'a ilham veren, klasik ABD taktiği devreye giriyor burada. Rus elemana hemen bir itiraf anlaşması (plea agrrement) imzalatmışlar. Rus elemandan biraz daha ek bilgi ve PARA tırtıklamışlar yani. "Hacı 25 yıl mı yatmak istersin yoksa 10 yıl yatıp çıkmak mı? İkincisiyse ötmeye başla!" tarzı bir anlaşma oluyor bunlar sanırım filmlerden gördüğümüz kadarıyla.

 

Rus elemanın, sağa sola vermiş olduğu toplam zarar 9 ila 25 milyon dolar civarındaymış. (YUH BEA! Paraya gel!) Bitkoyin, mitkoyin falan abiden anca 5 küsür milyon dolar tırtıklayabilmiş Sam emmimiz.

 

Vaktiyle herifçioğlu 500,000 bilgisayarlık bir botnet ağına sahip olduğunu söyleyip, sağa-sola havasını atıyormuş. Gerçi mevzu, herifçioğlunun "övüneceği" kadar var. "500,000 infected computers" iyi bir rakam tek bir kişi için.

Rusya'nın ABD seçimlerine müdahale etmiş olduğuna dair ortaya atılan iddiaların etkilerinin devam ettiğini görüyoruz. Her ne kadar Trump yönetimi, mevzuyu sulandırmak istese ve mevzunun üzerini örtmeye gayret etse de ABD devlet refleksi bu konuyu hemen bırakma niyetinde değil gibi anlaşılıyor. Tüm bunların sebebinin bu olduğunu düşünüyorum. Daha eğlenceli haberler duyabiliriz bundan sonra konuyla ilgili olarak.

Yazıdan notlar:

"Federal authorities seized approximately $5 million in Bitcoin and $272,000 in cash from him. According to the plea agreement, victims' estimate losses totaled between $9.5 million to $25 million."

 

"Tverdokhlebov boasted he possessed 40,000 stolen credit card numbers and controlled as many as 500,000 infected computers for his botnets."

 

"At various times between 2009 and 2013, Tverdokhlebov claimed on the cybercrime forums that, among other things, he possessed 40,000 stolen credit card numbers and could control up to 500,000 infected computers."

Grizzly Steppe IP Addresses

Below you can find the IP addresses which were allegedly a part of the Grizzly Steppe:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1pTg2yQ7JJWgMGVFeQEvCS2sBjIE&hl=en%22&ll=39.77695796990109%2C30.520955418777476&z=18