Chinese Hackers Flooding Foreign Forums as China Clamps Down on Tor
Underground hacker forums in China and Russia are as different as each country's regular shopping bazaars, according to research from Recorded Future. Both Russian and Chinese forums host a wide variety of international content. Russian forums rarely if ever feature data dumps from Russian firms. By contrast, data dumps and malware sourced from Chinese firms are usually only found on Chinese forums. Chinese speakers are internationalists that are often active in Chinese, English and Russian forums. Perhaps unsurprisingly, because of the difficulties in learning the Chinese language, few if any native Russian or English speakers use Chinese forums. Access to hacker forums within China is getting steadily more difficult because of sustained efforts to restrict Tor and VPN services . This is pushing Chinese hackers towards foreign forums, Recorded Future said. The result of this migration is that data and malware once unique to Chinese forums is more readily available in