Perhaps this is a disastrous break-ins for users of electronic mail accounts gmail. According to some sources, the attack was carried out by a group of people who came from China. After the tragedy of late 2009, when the hackers from the country of origin stubborn bamboo curtain managed to break into Google's system and steal the codes is important, now Gmail electronic mail service provider to be targeted.
Reported by Reuters on Thursday (02/05/2011), includes the latest attack seems to rely so-called "phishing" scams and other fraudulent behavior is often used hackers to get passwords from people and websites that are not vigilant about protecting information.
The victims, including state and military officials, bureaucrats Asia, Chinese activists and journalists, deluded give their Gmail account password to cyber criminals based in mainland China, according to Google's statement as written in the WSJ. The aim is to spread the attack was the victim of electronic mail to certain addresses.
Google itself has done their security-related measures to detect and disrupt infiltration. All the victims have been notified and their Gmail accounts are guaranteed to be immediately addressed.
Google will not say what part of the U.S. government were targeted or whether there may have contained confidential information in your Gmail account was hacked.
Google search for origin of the attack that led to Jinan, China. A city to house a computer vocational school associated with the attacks more than a year ago on the Google computer system, along with more than 20 other U.S. companies. Jinan, which is located about 400 kilometers south of Beijing, is the headquarters of the bureaus of technical surveillance of the People's Liberation Army, one of the largest armies in the world.
In Washington, the United States, agency investigators FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and the U.S. State Department was shoulder to shoulder investigate this case. "We do not believe there is an official e-mail account owned by U.S. government officials who breached," said Caitlin Hayden of the U.S. National Security Council to the WSJ.
Previously, Mila Parker, a security researcher in Washington, Google would have warned the threat of attack. Mila managed to save examples of emails that he was identified through routine observation and he called the attack "man-in-the-mailbox."
The method used by the sender: electronic mail accounts of victims and their contacts in it seized and used to convince other potential victims.
According to him, as revealed in the pages of New York Times, was "not new or cutting-edge ways," but "spreading invasive."
He then handed me a fake document entitled "Draft US-China Joint Statement" (draft Cooperation Agreement US-China) that is spread through e-mail account in the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency and Gmail.
When the user tries to download the document, they will be herded into a fake Gmail homepage that will steal your password.
That incident will certainly further increase the pressure on cyberwar issues. The U.S. government this week will decide that cyber attacks are classified as "war".
Meanwhile, British Defence Secretary, Nick Harvey said, as quoted from the pages of The Guardian, "All activities in the virtual world will slowly form a kind of battlefield of the future."
So it is not excessive if a few weeks ago, the U.S. government through President Barack Obama has asked some key people in the field of Information and Technology to become a telecommunications security adviser, and it turns out that worrying about what happens now, an attack on electronic mail providers gmail.
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