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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2020, @03:50AM
Why would the Chinese be outraged? Their concept of government and separation of powers are quite different from the rest of the non-totalitarian world. Hence why a lot of them only see one side of the Huawei debacle, that is Chinese discrimination.
Discussing anything about the Chinese government with most Chinese, even migrants, is kinda like discourse with a religious zealot; you can tell even if they're good natured person, their reality view is some what distorted by a fundamental warped view of the Chinese government's role in the country and the world. Yes, there are exceptions to this of course where some have enough critical thinking to pull themselves out of that quagmire, but most do not due to the conditioning they're exposed to since birth.