Computer-hackers based in China spied on the systems belonging to American Chamber of Commerce, causing the association's employees to be flooded with spam mails, reported HUFF POST TECH on December 21, 2011.
Actually, during May 2010, it was found that cyber-attackers from China hacked into the American Chamber of Commerce. This followed a security infringement thought to have happened during November 2009 or still a couple of months before so that the hackers could get a minimum of 6-months for maintaining admission into the Chamber's computer-network at the administrator level.
Sources indicate that the hackers at first seemingly acquired admission through spear phishing electronic mails containing malicious web-links dispatched to all the 3m members of the Chamber. Thereafter, at least one employee clicked on the malevolent web-link followed with unwittingly downloading the malware.
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