The "black hand" behind the "explosive message" involving millions of traffic: we are also afraid, but we still ca n’t bear to delete
Chinanews.com, Nanjing, April 1st (Su Gongxin, Yang Yanci) After the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia outbreak, the relevant information has always attracted the attention of the majority of netizens. A few criminals took this opportunity to invent and disseminate the "behind the scenes" with ulterior motives, thereby gaining a lot of attention and traffic from them.
On the 1st, the Jiangsu police notified a “black army” behind the “explosives” of the Internet, thereby uncovering a “gray industrial chain” where the traffic was illegally realised: the Wuxi police in the province took 9 days to use a network during the epidemic "Burning", Shun Teng made trouble to destroy a "network water army" gang that used its media account to make and spread rumors.
The picture shows the crime tools seized by the police. New photo by Su Gong
A total of over 10 million readings have been received, and dozens of them have been forwarded from media accounts ... During February, an article entitled "Confessions from South China Seafood Market Suppliers!" Exposure huge shady! "The article from the self-media account was widely reposted in the" Friends Circle ".
"The reading volume is so high, what is the content?" Some netizens asked such questions. After receiving clues from the masses, the Wuxi Public Security Bureau immediately launched an investigation.
"We found that this article was run by the 'Cyber Water Army' group. They spliced and tampered with old posts in 2016, and replaced them with titles related to the epidemic, spreading rumors through the epidemic hotspot." Cyber Security of Wuxi Public Security Bureau Ni Shiyuan, the detachment leader of the security detachment, said that they also found that the article was originally published from a media account and was also suspected of spreading other false information about the epidemic situation. There are various signs that the shadow of the "network water army" is hidden behind it.
The picture shows the "exploded" traffic burst article. New photo by Su Gong
According to the suspect Li, on February 15th, when his colleague Wu searched the information of South China Seafood City, he accidentally found an article titled "Ashamed Sinner Xu Mouqin Repents in Public Today". The article mainly describes a certain aquatic product. Internal market chaos. "We thought of linking this post to Wuhan South China Seafood Market as a 'hot spot'," said Li.
"The content of the original article was basically unchanged. It was just a change of title, and it didn't take much effort." Li explained that in the daily work, they mainly asked employees to crawl high-visited articles online and add them to the article. After the title of the blogger's eyeball was released, the authenticity of the article was not judged.
Due to the hot spots of the epidemic, the number of articles read exceeded 100,000+ soon. "The day after he posted it, we found that the article was read a lot, and I was in the group @all members, and asked everyone to forward it quickly." Li said.
"They have manipulated 35 self-media account pushes, and their reading volume has exceeded 10 million times." Said Tang Liang, deputy team leader of the Fourth Division of the Cyber Security Guard of the Public Security Bureau of Wuxi City.
In the opinion of the police, in the past few years, the "water army" gang mainly obtained illegal benefits through paid deletion of posts, but in this case, the "water army" gang has already made up and forwarded eye-catching rumor articles to attract traffic to obtain advertising revenue.
"In the end, the reading volume was too high, and we were afraid, but we were still reluctant to delete it." Li said frankly, because the higher the reading volume of the article, the more advertising revenue they may get.
For some newly registered self-media accounts, due to the limited number of followers and the low read volume of posts, they also bought self-media accounts that already have a certain number of followers from their peers, in order to obtain better communication results.
"After investigation, in September 2019, Li and others spent a total of 275,000 yuan (RMB, the same below), purchased more than 70 self-media accounts, and a total of more than 500,000 followers." Wuxi Public Security Bureau Huishan Branch Network Wang Wei, a security police member, said that by operating the batch of self-media accounts and making eye-catching articles, Li and others gradually "drained" to further expand their ability to make money.
According to Gao Chunwei, a policeman from the Qianzhou Police Station of the Public Security Bureau of Wuxi City, from September 2019 until his arrest, the criminal gang has made a total profit of about 250,000 yuan. Among them, the first click from a media account has reached more than 7 million clicks. More than 40,000 yuan.
On the evening of February 27, the Huishan Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Wuxi City arrested the gang in conjunction with the relevant police, arrested Li and 9 criminal suspects at a certain area in Qianzhou District, Huishan District, and seized the computer 9 There are 24 stations and mobile phones, and more than 200 self-media accounts for making rumors have been found in computers and mobile phones.
As of now, the suspects have passed the period of quarantine and observation, and all of them have been sent to the custody of supervision places based on the implementation of epidemic prevention measures. (Finish)