Attacks Target Specific Chinese Dialects

The Dark Visitor, a blog that tracks Chinese hacker activity, provides some technical details on attacks that selectively target systems based on the Chinese dialect used by web browsers. Although these types of attacks have been seen before, this is a good example of the trend toward selective targeting.

The post also provides a sample protest message sent in SQL-injection attacks:

"This is a mass invasion. Safeguard the motherland’s dignity!
F*** FRANCE! F*** CNN! I WILL ATTACK you ALWAYS !
I love my motherland!"

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