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AFP: Activists accuse Vietnam of cyber attack
HANOI — A US-based opposition group labelled "terrorist" by Vietnam on Monday blamed the communist government for a cyber attack that it said had crippled its website.
Cyberattacks were recently used to intimidate opponents of a mining project in Vietnam with ties to China, according to Google and McAfee. Malware that was disguised as a popular Vietnamese-language keyboard driver for Windows users was used to create a botnet, according to blog posts from Google's Neel Mehta and McAfee Chief Technical Officer George Kurtz . That botnet was then used to target blogs rallying against a bauxite mining project in Vietman, employing DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks to shut down those blogs, according to the posts.
Vietnamese dissidents targeted by botnet attacks | Relevant Results - CNET News
Vietnam denies involvement with cyberattacks | Security - CNET News
The Vietnam government dismissed what it called "groundless" accusations that it was involved in recent cyberattacks used to intimidate opponents of a mining project in Vietnam. Malware disguised as a popular Vietnamese-language keyboard driver was used to create a botnet that targeted blogs rallying against a bauxite mining project in Vietman, according to blog posts from Google's Neel Mehta and McAfee Chief Technical Officer George Kurtz . "The perpetrators may have political motivations and may have some allegiance to the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam," Kurtz said in his blog.Google , probably still sore after its fight with the spiky Chinese authorities, has nevertheless opened a new front in its battle against Net censorship: It's discovered a huge cyberattack against people who contradict the Vietnamese government. The discovery was apparently made as part of Google's ongoing investigation into the allegedly China-sourced hack attacks that prompted the entire recent Google versus China fiasco.
Google: Vietnam Pulling Similar Anti-Free Speech Cyberattacks to China | Fast Company
Google accused Vietnam on Wednesday of stifling political dissent with cyberattacks, the latest complaint by the internet giant against a communist regime following a public dispute with China over online censorship.
Google speaks out over Vietnam cyber attacks
Writing on his blog, Neel Mehta of Google's security team said the malware had "infected the computers of potentially tens of thousands of users" around the world.
BBC News - Google says Vietnam mine opponents under cyber attack