Make a vigilance!Xi'an Police issued a notice

The e -mail system of Northwestern University of Technology was attacked by overseas network attacks, Xi'an Police: File case investigation

On June 23, Beilin Public Security, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province issued a notice:

At 15:00 on April 12, 2022, the Tai Bai Road Police Station received an alarm from the Informatization Construction and Management Office of Northwest China University of Technology that the school's email system was found to be approved by the theme of scientific research review, defense invitation and notice of abroad. The email contains a Trojan horse program, which seduces some teachers and students to click on the link to illegally obtain the right to log in to the teacher and student email mailbox, causing the relevant email data to be stolen.

At the same time, some faculty employees have also found traces of network attacks in personal Internet computers. The above -mentioned behavior of sending fishing mail and launching online attacks has caused a major security threat to the information system in Northwestern University of Technology and the important data of the majority of teachers and students. After receiving the police, our bureau immediately organized the Internet Security Brigade to conduct investigation and evidence, initially grasped the relevant facts, extracted the Trojan horse procedures and fishing mail samples, and fixed relevant evidence in accordance with the law. At present, our bureau has conducted investigation on the case in accordance with Article 285 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, and further carried out technical analysis of the extracted Trojan and fishing mail samples. Initially judged that this incident was a network attacks initiated by overseas hackers and criminals.

Picture source: Xi'an Beilin Public Security Weibo

Earlier, the WeChat public account of Northwest China University of Technology issued an announcement on June 22:

Recently, the email system of our school has been attacked by the Internet, which has a negative impact on the normal teaching life of the school. Our school reported the police as soon as possible, and was preliminarily determined by the public security organs.

In this online attack incident, there are hackers from overseas and criminals sending fishing emails containing Trojan's procedures to teachers and students of our school, trying to steal relevant teachers and students' email data and personal information of citizens, and cause significant major work and order of life to the school's normal work and order of life. Risk risk hazards. For a long time, our school has attached great importance to network security work, regularly carried out network security publicity and education, regularly carried out network security inspections and technical monitoring, clarified the active defense strategy, and comprehensively adopted technical protection measures. The school's awareness of network security and keenness of teachers and students has increased year by year. Fishing emails from overseas have not caused important data leakage. It has not caused major network security incidents. Campus network security and personal information security of teachers and students have been effectively maintained.

In order to further find out the facts, deal with the network attacks of related hackers and criminals in accordance with the law, and adopt effective measures to build a campus network security barrier and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of teachers and students. And retain the right to prosecution.

Photo source: Northwestern University of Technology WeChat public account

Source: Xi'an Beilin Public Security Weibo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 896 Automobile FD

Edit: Xiaolu

Review: Chu Mo, Wenyue

Produced: Xi'an Newspaper Media Group

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