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China shuts down over 300 phishing websites
(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2008-12-03 20:35 The mechanism for fast processing of anti-phishing, which is based on .CN domain name management system, had stopped domain name analysis of over 300 phishing websites by Oct 30 2008, said Anti-phishing Alliance of China (APAC). The APAC, initiated by CNNIC, was established on July 18, 2008 in order to tackle phishing activities using .CN domain names and to protect online safety. It takes the lead in striking the phishing websites in the field of e-commerce and online financial businesses, industry insiders said. The international community is working on this anti-phishing issue as phishing websites have seriously jeopardized Internet security and prohibit the development of e-commerce & online financial businesses. Enterprises such as Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Tencent.com, Taobao.com, Baidu.com and Google.com are now all members of the alliance. Moreover, there are more and more newcomers from industries such as online financial business, securities, e-commerce and online-gaming, bring the alliance's members to 42. CNNIC was authorized to accept reporting about phishing sites, to organize a phishing site identification, and to stop its DNS resolution once a phishing-site using CN domain name is identified. Sun Hanhui, lawyer of CNNIC and director of secretariat of the alliance, said that recent complaining cases, which were accepted by the alliance, mainly come from some domestic well-known e-commerce websites and commercial banks such as Tencent.com, Taobao.com, Baidu.com, Google.com and Industrial & Commercial Bank of China. Especially since late Sep, as financial crisis has been rapidly growing, many criminals took the chance to illegally attack above-mentioned websites by using phishing ones. "Phishing websites design webpage style, LOGO and pictures as exactly the same as the real Taobao.com to cheat users to get their account information." Ni Liang, Manager of Network Security Department of Taobao.com, said "In the past, we spent several or even more days to handle phishing websites but there were still users who would be cheated by them. "The mechanism for fast processing established by the alliance can instantly stop the domain name analysis service as long as phishing websites are spotted. Therefore, fraud behaviors are stopped as soon as possible which can maximally decrease users' losses." Taobao.com suffered 'harassment' of dozens of phishing websites such as tioban.cn and taoboai.cn within several months. Such cases were effectively solved within two hours by complaining to the alliance. (For more biz stories, please visit Industries)
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