04 January 2013

Cyber-attack malware in Japan identified

JAPAN - A cyber-attack suspected to have compromised and sent overseas more than 3,000 confidential documents from the farm ministry, including many on global trade negotiations, used special software to transmit the information, it has been learned.
The same programme was also used to take internal Finance Ministry documents in an attack uncovered in July, government sources said.

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So far, the farm ministry's initial investigation has revealed the malware used in the suspected leak to be HTran, a connection bouncer programme believed to have been developed by a Chinese hacker group around 2003, the government sources said.

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The programme was also used to steal data from the Finance Ministry, as HTran data transmissions were discovered to have taken place from October 2010 to November 2011, the sources said.

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