American company scared off Chinese hackers

The American cyber security company CrowdStrike announced that it was the first to succeed in stopping attacks by Chinese hackers on a US technology company, which gives hope that other companies will be successfully protected against hacker attacks in the future.

Dmitry Alperovich, co-founder and leading technology expert at CrowdStrike, told Reuters that his company watched how the Chinese hacker group Hurricane Panda stopped attacks on a US technology company in January of this year after hackers discovered CrowdStrike in their computer networks.

According to Alperovich, the incident occurred after CrowdStrike reacted to the hacking systems of another American technology company in April 2014 of the year, behind which were also hackers from the Hurricane Panda.

Subsequently, CrowdStrike was able to establish that the group was trying to use the recently discovered vulnerability of Windows operating systems, known as the “zero-day vulnerability”, to attack.

After CrowdStrike notified the threat to Microsoft, which had made a dent, the hackers stopped trying to hack into the first company’s system.

According to Alperovich, CrowdStrike “with a high degree of confidence” could argue that the hacker group is linked to the Chinese government.