The Vietnamese government denies it’s involvement in the current cyberattacks used to intimidate opponents of a mining project in Vietnam. “The perpetrators may have political motivations and may have some allegiance to the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” said McAfee Chief Technical Officer George Kurtz. “The comments are groundless,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nguyen Phuong Nga said on Monday. [...]

Google and Mcafee have announced that they found a new global botnet consisting of potentially tens of thousands of compromised machines that is targeting Vietnamese users in the attempt to silence political activists. Neel Mehta from Google’s security team said that users got infected when they installed  trojans that were masquerading as legitimate Vietnamese keyboard drivers, used to allow Windows [...]

On their blog, Google posted information about an attack that targeted potentially tens of thousands of users who downloaded Vietnamese keyboard language software. The main payload of the malware was to spy and to participate in distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against various blogs that containing political articles. One way to survive those DDOS attacks is to use our [...]