Political hackers
Mar. 27th, 2008 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
leftyjewChina is hacking Save Darfur Campaign
An email that they sent out:
Dear {person},
As we have intensified our advocacy efforts targeting China, we, along
with others in the Darfur movement, have noticed sophisticated and
subversive attempts to monitor our servers, intercept our emails, and
infect our computers with malicious programs (malware).
These attempts have mostly targeted our aggressive campaign
highlighting China's role in Darfur, and appear to originate in China
itself. Despite our best efforts to ensure electronic security, the
intruders managed to access some information on our servers.
Among the information the intruders accessed is information about the
event you registered on our web site.
To the best of our knowledge, the only information that the intruders
accessed is already publicly available on our web site. Specifically,
the intruders accessed:
Your name, email address, and phone number (if you included it when
you signed up.)
The date you registered your event
The date, time, and location of your event
The expected attendance at your event
The amount - but not the content - of your group's activity online
(e.g., the intruders can see the number of emails sent to your group's
listserv, but they can not determine the senders, recipients, or the
content of these emails.)
These intruders are presumably attempting to derail our efforts to
highlight the role China is playing in genocide in Darfur. Several
members of our staff have received harmless-looking emails with virus-
infected attachments.
We therefore strongly recommend that you verify the source of any
attachments you receive, even if they appear to come from a trusted
source.
We are conducting a full review of our IT networks to thwart such
electronic attacks and have implemented new security measures to
improve the security of your information. We also referred this matter
to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and met with special agents
this week.
Our advocacy efforts have touched a nerve and someone in China is
trying to send us a message. We all must send one back - by escalating
our calls for Beijing to take a more responsible and proactive role in
ending the suffering of the people of Darfur.
We apologize for any inconvenience. Please rest assured that we are
taking all possible steps to ensure the security of our systems and
your personal information.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at security@savedarfur.org
.
Coby Rudolph
National Outreach Coordinator
Sarosh Syed
Director of Online Communications
An email that they sent out:
Dear {person},
As we have intensified our advocacy efforts targeting China, we, along
with others in the Darfur movement, have noticed sophisticated and
subversive attempts to monitor our servers, intercept our emails, and
infect our computers with malicious programs (malware).
These attempts have mostly targeted our aggressive campaign
highlighting China's role in Darfur, and appear to originate in China
itself. Despite our best efforts to ensure electronic security, the
intruders managed to access some information on our servers.
Among the information the intruders accessed is information about the
event you registered on our web site.
To the best of our knowledge, the only information that the intruders
accessed is already publicly available on our web site. Specifically,
the intruders accessed:
Your name, email address, and phone number (if you included it when
you signed up.)
The date you registered your event
The date, time, and location of your event
The expected attendance at your event
The amount - but not the content - of your group's activity online
(e.g., the intruders can see the number of emails sent to your group's
listserv, but they can not determine the senders, recipients, or the
content of these emails.)
These intruders are presumably attempting to derail our efforts to
highlight the role China is playing in genocide in Darfur. Several
members of our staff have received harmless-looking emails with virus-
infected attachments.
We therefore strongly recommend that you verify the source of any
attachments you receive, even if they appear to come from a trusted
source.
We are conducting a full review of our IT networks to thwart such
electronic attacks and have implemented new security measures to
improve the security of your information. We also referred this matter
to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and met with special agents
this week.
Our advocacy efforts have touched a nerve and someone in China is
trying to send us a message. We all must send one back - by escalating
our calls for Beijing to take a more responsible and proactive role in
ending the suffering of the people of Darfur.
We apologize for any inconvenience. Please rest assured that we are
taking all possible steps to ensure the security of our systems and
your personal information.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at security@savedarfur.org
.
Coby Rudolph
National Outreach Coordinator
Sarosh Syed
Director of Online Communications
