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China news tagged with: Internet crime (8)

• China Targets Internet in Crime Sweep

  

  From AP:

  Seeking to ferret out online games considered overly violent or unhealthy, China has targeted illegal Web sites, computer markets and Internet cafes as part of a campaign to rein in juvenile crime.

  The crackdown, christened “Operation For Tomorrow,” is also aimed at Web sites offering unregistered playing platforms or services for gamers that can be downloaded, the official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday.

  The plan will “use the law to attack, investigate and prosecute … to cleanse the environment in which young people are raised and prevent and reduce juvenile crime and illegal activity,” the report said.

  Read also China to tighten supervision over “virtue communities” by Xinhua.

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  • February 12, 2008 5:08 AM

• Researchers Map China’s Underground Cybercrime Economy - Ryan Naraine

  

  From Ryan Naraine’s Zero Day blog on ZDNet:

  Researchers from Peking University in Beijing and the University of Mannheim in Germany released a paper this week that aims to map the underground cybercrime economy in China.

  The paper concludes that 1.49 percent of the 145,000 most popular sites in China “contain some kind of malicious content.” While the Internet boom in China is impressive, the researchers note that “there is also the other side of the coin: targeting the virtual assets owned by the normal Chinese Internet users, malicious attackers, so called blackhats, discover the Web as a new venue for making money by exploiting innocent users.” [Full text]

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  • December 8, 2007 9:24 AM

• Can a Computer Virus be “Patriotic”? — Zhang Dongfeng

  

  Images and story from Southern Metropolis Daily, via Sina, translated by CDT:

  Recently, a special “intelligent” virus has emerged from the Chinese Internet. This Win32/KillDPT virus can decide to suspend the operating system or create intrusive damage based on different languages used on the computer, to ensure the use of the simplified Chinese character system. Some bloggers call it “the patriotic virus.”

  According to a Beijing anti-virus center, the virus will first read the registry keys and judge the operating system type. If it is a simplified Chinese operating system, the virus will automatically withdraw from the operation and have no effect on the computer. If it uses Japanese or Indonesian language operating systems, the the virus will destroy the hard disk by filling the computer with garbage data and restarting the system. The result is the computer becomes completely paralyzed. If it is an English system, the sentence, “Your luck’s so good!” will pop up on the screen (This is obvious Chinglish; the literal translation should be “you’ll be very lucky”.)

  

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  • October 18, 2007 9:03 AM

• Child Crime on the Rise in China - Middle East Times

  

  The Ministry of Public Security in China has identified internet use as a major factor in the increasing number of crimes that children in China commit.

  From the Middle East Times:

  BEIJING — The number of children arrested in China has increased by a third in the past three years, state media said Thursday, with officials blaming a rise in gang culture and the influence of the Internet.

  Authorities arrested 92,574 underage criminals in 2006, a rise of 33 percent since 2003, according to an unnamed official in the country’s top prosecution office.

  “There is a visible increase in gang crime among juvenile delinquents and crimes have become more violent,” the official was quoted as saying. “This is a major issue which endangers social stability.” [Full Text]

  See also the China Daily report on child crime.

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  • May 31, 2007 6:35 PM

• Police blame law for Net crime - Xinhua

  

  From Xinhua via Shanghai Daily (link):

  CHINA’S police are struggling to clamp down on rampant Internet crime in the face of vague and inadequate laws, senior police say.

  “The most common crimes involve theft, racketeering, fraud of on-line resources and services, mass disruption and inconvenience to the public,” said Xu Jianzhuo, deputy director of the Internet security bureau under the Public Security Ministry.

  Li Jingjing, from the ministry’s security solutions bureau, said that from 1997 to 2005 police investigated 11,521 alleged Internet crimes, but only 14 cases resulted in convictions for sabotage.

  “The legislation is so vague that it is difficult to apply in court,” Li said, citing its failure to specifically criminalize hacking or sabotage in areas such as healthcare, finance, and energy.

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  • April 9, 2006 6:17 PM

• Let Us See What The Chinese Internet Police Do Each Day - Wenxue City

  

  ESWN has translated the following article, which originally appeared on Wenxue City:

  The principal work of the Internet police is to look around the Internet to catch criminals. They monitor the Internet bars, they look for pornographic, reactionary and other harmful material on the Internet and they solve Internet crimes based upon the clues.

  There was not the excitement of making arrests, there was no hardship in solving cases, there was no need to carry guns and most of the time, they are in plain clothes looking like intellectuals at scientific research institutes. But their job skills are no less than the crime investigating police officers.

  This reporter was elated for a few days about the opportunity of working with the Internet police. It was going to be a vacation looking for harmful information on the Internet compared to gathering news out in the field!

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  • February 8, 2006 9:40 AM

• ESWN: The Greatest Internet Crime Trial in China

  

  From ESWN:

  Here is a photo of a public trial being held at the Middle-level Number 1 People’s Court in the city of Hofei in Anhui province.¬† There are eleven defendants altogether.¬† They are being accused of being part of a criminal enterprise based upon an Internet forum…

  So what exactly were they doing that constituted criminal behavior?¬† Well, this should have been easy to guess.¬† As a country, China has the second largest number of Internet users.¬† When Chinese people get on the Internet, most of them are not banging the keyboard to talk about freedom or democracy.¬† Similarly, as a country, the United States has the largest number of Internet users and most Americans do not get on the Internet to talk about the privatization of social security or the appointment of John Bolton as US Ambassador to the United Nations.¬† The common thing about the United States and China is that the most popular subject on the Internet is … pornography.

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  • May 13, 2005 8:38 AM

• Court to deal with Internet crimes (Xinhua)

  

  “A local court in Beijing recently set up a workgroup to deal with cases associated with the Internet as an effort to probe into the legal issues relating to cyberspace.”

  The full article is here.

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  • April 15, 2004 3:33 PM

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