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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday June 27 2020, @07:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-your-base-are-belong-to-us dept.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/06/chinese-bank-requires-foreign-firm-to-install-app-with-covert-backdoor/

A large, multinational technology company got a nasty surprise recently as it was expanding its operations to China. The software a local bank required the company to install so it could pay local taxes contained an advanced backdoor.

The cautionary tale, detailed in a report published Thursday, said the software package, called Intelligent Tax and produced by Beijing-based Aisino Corporation, worked as advertised. Behind the scenes, it also installed a separate program that covertly allowed its creators to remotely execute commands or software of their choice on the infected computer. It was also digitally signed by a Windows trusted certificate.
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Trustwave didn't identify the two companies that encountered GoldenSpy or the local Chinese bank that required that Intelligent Tax be installed. Representatives of Aisino Corporation didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment for this post.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday June 27 2020, @08:22PM (5 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday June 27 2020, @08:22PM (#1013355) Journal

    Give them end-to-end encryption, but we keep the keys. How is the US different from China?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @04:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @04:47AM (#1013569)

    Yet both are still better than Russia. Poor saps, at least they get good cheap vodka to blur the pain.

  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @10:18PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @10:18PM (#1013859)

    Well, for one, China has the keys but the US doesn't, but the DOJ would love to have them?

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 29 2020, @12:53AM (2 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 29 2020, @12:53AM (#1013917) Journal

      Touché - the competition, or the race to the bottom, is on. It's a 3-way race between the Far East, the West, and the North, right?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2020, @03:43AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2020, @03:43AM (#1013970)

        Umm, no, its all the way up for China, they hit rock bottom a while back during the whole socialism stint, didn't work, tweak and try again, they're few iterations in now. They're smart, they have massive amount of meat bags, use them, make them rich, export them and their services, place them in other countries, embed them into the local population, all the while they have the invisible puppet strings attached to them whether they know it or now or willing or not. If you do business in China, nothing comes with no strings attached.

        The West? If you think Trump is rock bottom, you poor poor saps..

        • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 29 2020, @03:58PM

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 29 2020, @03:58PM (#1014124) Journal

          You raise an interesting question:

          What WOULD "rock bottom" mean for the West?

          Well, there's the Mafia. Al Capone, and today's more modern drug cartels operating out of Mexico, primarily. There's that "company town" in the southeast, where the company owned every square inch of land in the city - and probably in the county. There are the gangs all over major US cities, and even outside of the cities. The railroad and robber barons of the 1800's.

          Mix it all up, and I suppose a half dozen varieties of Al Capone who own and/or control most of the corporations in the US, who make and break politicians, have "agreements" with the gangs and drug cartels, actively fund police departments, "legalize" a huge drug industry, and support the world's "trade agreements".

          And, somehow, names like Koch and Soros readily come to mind . . .

          I'm reminded of some dystopian stories such as Snow Crash.

          But, you're right. Trump is small potatoes compared to what we could have. Just a bit player in the grand scheme of thing, who manipulated a realty company on a rather limited scale. He comes nowhere near a Rupert Murdoch.