China shuts down hacker training website

2010-02-15

A company in China which ran the biggest hacker training website in the country has been shut down, according to the Xinhua news agency.

The company and website offered downloads of hacker tools and Trojan software to 12,000 VIP members as well as 170,000 others who had registered for free membership, according to the news provider.

Officials in the country arrested three people connected to the Black Hawk Safety Net, which had reportedly collected around seven million yuan (approximately £650,000).

Police also recovered nine servers, five computers and a Honda Accord.

Talking about the Far East, David Emm, a senior regional researcher for international information security software vendor Kaspersky Lab UK, pointed to another occasion where a hacker was caught for writing a certain piece of malware.

"One of the things the courts imposed on him was writing a fix for what he created and he wasn't able to do it," Mr Emm noted.

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