Google and McAfee uncover possible Vietnamese government plot to expose dissidents

Google, who pulled out of the Chinese mainland just last week, uncovered a plot to use malware infected computers to expose visitors to http://www.bauxitevietnam.info, a dissident website criticising Vietnamese mining project involving a Chinese state run company.

The malware made its way on to the unsuspecting users' target computers when they downloaded plug-ins to suppose Vietnamese characters from another site, that had itself been hacked unbeknownst to its owners. McAffee analysed the malware, which they said was a quite standard trojan for tracking user activity, creating access logs and sending them back to the perpetrators servers, currently believed to be elements of the Vietnamese government's security services.

Am I the only one who finds it hard to believe that China isn't involved here somewhere too?


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