The 'bad battle' of a bad hacker in Vietnam

Right from the first appearance, Vietnamese "black hat" hackers have shown their "bravery" in the break-in cases, taking account . We reviewed some "achievements" of Vietnamese hackers in years recently.

Vietnamese super hackers and retaliation times

Attack the website of Post and Telecommunications Corporation

After the Post and Telecommunications Corporation applied some account security measures such as limiting phone numbers, providing customers with a list of phone numbers to access their accounts, the hackers redirected to attack Website.

In March 2000, more than 20 websites were attacked by hackers and replaced the homepage content.

SCBank was hacked by hackers 1 million USD

In 2007, SCB 's online payment system was hijacked by hackers , attacking and taking away the amount of $ 1 million. During the investigation, the authorities said the hacker had snatched a bank employee.

Hacker snares, after a continuous IN - OUT retrieval on Yahoo and disconnected artificially, hackers can lure employee X to use a different route to chat. This hacker quickly identified, the employee is using wifi through a public ADSL connection of FPT. Not only that, he also seduced the victim to access a trap (a fake link on the Internet), thereby collecting the operating system and browser version of X.

Hacker became the admin with the highest authority, using a domain account, he started wandering around, filtering out users from the Head of the department. Try again. Eureka . Account of a boss Vice Chairman of the Board has been accepted. As such, hackers log in from SCB's main door (now " playing " the other Vice President) to carry out a series of online transactions with foreign partners.

Attack, steal credit cards in the UK, Australia

Recently, in December 2010, the Ministry of Public Security said it broke the Vietnamese hacker hacked to steal information of 100,000 credit cards in the UK, worth £ 6 million. In particular, it is clear that the subjects Le Dang Khoa, Nguyen Ngoc Lam, Nguyen Ngoc Thanh and Nguyen Dinh Nghi (living in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City) are the leaders of the break-ins. These subjects are all very young and good at information technology.

Exhibits of crime group using high technology.(Photo of TP)

At the police office, these hackers initially claimed to have " turned " other people's credit accounts into their own and stole money from their accounts. In order to avoid being detected by the account holder, they convert money into several times with little value. Besides, in order to deal with domestic authorities, they do not directly accept money but hire others to use their ID card to carry out procedures to withdraw money at banks. In addition to cash, they also buy many valuable assets such as laptops, expensive items and post them.

In addition to the UK incident, the Ministry of Public Security also investigated an identity theft of 1,000 other credit accounts in Australia. Another incident, which is being verified by C50, is that hackers collude with a number of foreign users to use credit accounts to steal tickets online and sell them at low prices.

Vietnamese students steal accounts online

In 2004, international student Nguyen Van Phi Hung was arrested by the Singapore government and forced into 4 of 11 crimes of illegal use of PC.

With an online game with a built-in trojan program, hidden software that records keystrokes, Phi Hung captured your personal information and used it to steal $ 638 from their bank account.

In November 2010, an Australian student in Australia, nicknamed PK Cen , attacked the bank's online payment system, crawled into a server hosting databases and used this information to buy goods on eBay. . This object was arrested by Australian Police.

After several times discovered some security holes, the nickname PK Cen has gradually been noticed by hackers in Australia. PK Cen to database server of Bank of Australia . Understanding important information, PK Cen uses hacked credit accounts to make purchases on eBay , a large online auction site.

Facebook was attacked by Vietnamese hackers

In June 2009, when accessing the homepage of Facebook.com and Facebook.vn , a small message line with rude and indecent words smeared BKAV and the director of cyber security center Bkis Nguyen Tu Quang appeared under the registration frame. Some information initially suggested that Facebook was faulty and Vietnamese hackers took advantage of this error to bring the above content to the Facebook homepage.

One of the messages that hackers leave on Facebook Vietnam.(Screenshots)

Abducted by an American agent and proceeded to arrest

In 2013, many websites both in the country and in the world simultaneously published information about Ngo Minh Hieu - a young Vietnamese hacker arrested by US agents . According to accusations from the US side, Ngo Minh Hieu was arrested for involving the sale of hundreds of thousands of personal information in the United States through websites operated by the young hacker.

US authorities said that between 2007 and 2012, Ngo Minh Hieu and some others had stolen and traded personal information of about 500,000 Americans including information about bank accounts. , credit card, address and phone number. Ngo Minh Hieu was charged with 15 charges, with a total penalty of up to 40 years in prison.

Notice of the case of Ngo Minh Hieu hacker on the website of the US Department of Justice. (Photo: Internet)

The allegations from the US law enforcement agency also said that Ngo Minh Hieu has run a number of websites and buying and selling personal information forums such as Superget.info and Findget.me. In the process of controlling the activities of these websites, Hieu and his colleagues created many accounts on virtual money services and used these accounts to receive money from selling credit card data as well as other personal information.

In the indictment, Hieu and his colleagues often sell huge information packages. As of November 18, 2011, this group offered a package of 4,000 credit cards for $ 4,600 and $ 500 for server fees. November 26, 2011 offered US $ 5,000 for 22,000 credit cards and US $ 10,000 for 50,000 credit cards.

Photo of Ngo Minh Hieu's passport (Photo: Internet)

Given the sophistication of the incident, in order to be able to capture Hieu, the American agents have proceeded to lure Hieu out of Vietnam with a business offer. When Hieu arrived in Guam, the US territory in the Pacific was arrested.

According to research, Ngo Minh Hieu was born in 1989 in Gia Lai, once a former student of Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland (New Zealand) in 2008-2009. During his studies, Hieu was accused of being involved in a credit scam with a TradeMe account (an eBay online auction site). After returning to Vietnam and being denied a visa to return to New Zealand, Hieu hacked the school's website, causing the site to be deactivated for two days in July 2009.

Students of talented engineers and pathways and behind bars

In the cases that shocked Vietnamese hackers, the most recent incident involved a student of a talented engineering class in early 2014. The main character of the story is Nguyen Van Hoa, a senior student. talented professor (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology). Hoa was arrested for allegedly breaking into foreign accounts to steal credit card information.

According to the accounts of people who know Hoa, this guy is very good at learning, especially in the field of information technology. Hoa can sit for hours at the computer to type commands.

Nguyen Van Hoa and the exhibits of the case after being arrested (Photo: Internet)

Hoa's criminal path began with joining 'UnderGround', a closed forum for hackers. Drawn by the members, Hoa began to get used to stealing information from credit cards of foreign accounts and selling them to make money. When arrested, in the account named Nguyen Van Hoa was more than 7 billion. This is the amount that different audiences pay for this young man in exchange for information about the accounts.

With the number of more than 300,000 credit accounts that Hoa stole successfully, if those who bought them use those accounts to buy goods online for only 1 million VND on each account, the number they received back up to 300 billion .

It is noteworthy that all the money Hoa received earlier from the sales was transferred to his father to buy land in Binh Duong and Ho Chi Minh City. When arrested, Hoa had no expression of a playboy, even his abode in Ho Chi Minh City was extremely sleazy.