China News Service, June 23. According to the official Weibo news of the Beilin Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, in response to the overseas cyber attack on the email system of Northwestern Polytechnical University, the Xi'an Public Security Bureau issued a police report on the 23rd, saying that it has According to Article 285 of the Criminal Law of the Republic of China, the case will be filed for investigation and further technical analysis will be carried out on the samples of Trojan horses and phishing emails extracted.
It is preliminarily determined that this incident is a cyber attack initiated by overseas hacker organizations and criminals.
The report stated that at about 15:00 on April 12, 2022, the Taibai Road Police Station of Beilin Branch of Xi'an Public Security Bureau received an alarm from the Information Construction and Management Office of Northwestern Polytechnical University, saying that the school's email system found a group of invitations for scientific research evaluation and defense. Phishing emails with the theme of going abroad and notification of going abroad, containing Trojan programs, lured some teachers and students to click on the link, and illegally obtained the login permissions of teachers and students' email addresses, resulting in the risk of related email data being stolen. Traces of cyber-attacks were also found.
The above behaviors of sending phishing emails and launching network attacks pose a major security threat to Northwestern Polytechnical University's on-campus information system and important data of teachers and students.
After receiving the alarm, the Beilin Branch of Xi'an Public Security Bureau immediately organized the Cyber Security Brigade to carry out investigation and evidence collection, initially grasped the relevant facts, extracted samples of Trojan horse programs and phishing emails, and fixed relevant evidence according to law.
Police reminder: Network security is no trivial matter. Any individual or organization has the right to report to the network security department of the local public security organ in accordance with Article 14 of the "Internet Security Law of the People's Republic of China" when encountering behaviors that endanger network security. The authorities will resolutely crack down on relevant illegal and criminal acts in accordance with the law.