VietNamNet
Bridge – The name “Sinh Tu Lenh” has
become famous in Vietnam after the Ministry of Public Security stated that the
culprit who attacked BKAV’s website and VietNamNet online newspaper, is a group
of hackers called “Sinh Tu Lenh.”
A lot
of information system attacks occurred in the first months of 2012 alone. BKAV,
a well-known network security firm, Unikey and the website of a student named
Quynh Anh, an attendant of the “Vietnam’s got talents” competition, one after
another became the aiming points of the hackers. Meanwhile, the leading
Vietnamese online newspaper VietNamNet bore a lot of attacks in 2011, which led
to the fact that the websites was inaccessible for many days.
Only on
March 22, 2012, after many months of investigation, Colonel Tran Van Hoa from
C50 Agency of the Ministry of Public Security, stated at a security workshop in
Hanoi that the hacker to BKAV’s website and VietNamNet newspaper was “Sinh Tu
Lenh” (Life and Death Command).
In
fact, the name “Sinh Tu Lenh” was a hot topic among the network security
officers in 2010 and 2011 already, when the group hijacked a lot of famous
websites and blogs in Vietnam. After the hacker successfully attacked a
website, he would leave a tag “Sinh Tu Lenh” on the website’s interface. The
tag once was the threat to webmasters and blogs’ owners.
Since
2010, Sinh Tu Lenh has been carrying out a lot of attacks to the most well
known websites and blogs in Vietnam, including VietNamNet newspaper, BKAV’s
website, Unikey and blogs, especially the blog of musician To Hai, and “made an
enemy” of Hvaonline.net, a hackers’ forum in Vietnam.
The
activities of the group of hackers have caught the special attention from the
public. It once was known as the people who tried to eliminate “left handed”
websites (left-handed means the website which publish reactionary news, while
right handed refer to Vietnamese newspapers). However, after a period of
operation, Sinh Tu Lenh began carrying out DDoS attacks to a lot of famous
websites in Vietnam to steal personal information.
There
are contradictory pieces of news about Sinh Tu Lenh. In July 2011, some local
newspapers, quoting their sources, affirmed that Sinh Tu Lenh is a man named
Tuan, born in 1978 in Quang Nam province, using the nickname tohoangvu. Tuan is
now living in HCM City under the mask of a designer.
Prior
to that, in the last months of 2010, the information about Sinh Tu Lenh once
again arisen from Vietland forum.
“Internet’s
dwellers” made a wild guess that Sinh Tu Lenh is a group of Vietnamese students
in the US. All of them are very young and following the training courses to
obtain doctorate. The leader of the group is a man born in Hai Phong City and
graduated from the Hanoi University of Technology.
However,
the author of the entry later published an article correcting the information.
Some
bloggers wrote on their blogs that Sinh Tu Lenh is a group of hackers trained
by BKAV and operated under the management of C50 Agency, which targeted left
handed websites. However, no reliable information has been found to prove the
conclusion.
Meanwhile,
TQN, a member of Hvaonline.net, the hackers’ forum, provided a noteworthy thing
that there is a man named Tuan, born in 1978 and he has the nickname tohoangvu.
However, the evidences are not enough to conclude if Tuan is a member of Sinh
Tu Lenh or just a victim.
TQN has
found out after analyzing a “.exe” file that the group of hackers includes two
or three teams that write malware, not only one man. The hackers’ forum has
discovered some interesting information that a man with the nickname Wu Yu Zhen
seems to have close relation with Sinh Tu Lenh.
However,
it is very difficult to find out the real name and nationality of the person,
who can use both Vietnamese and Chinese fluently, post Chinese music,
calligraphy and Hong Kong’s actresses’ images like a real Chinese person.
Binh
Minh
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