Red Hacker Alliance

Red Hacker Alliance

The Red Hacker Alliance is an informal group of Chinese hackers that at one time had over 80,000 members, making it one of the largest hacking groups in the world. ["'Red Hackers' back in China", Rediff.com, 2005] In December 2004, the group took down their website and became inactive until March 2005, when it regrouped and relaunched its site. [" [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/26/content_2879866.htm China's anti-hacking alliance regrouped] ", Xinhua, March 26,2005] "Computer World Australia" and "InformationWeek" both reported that members of the Red Hacker Alliance were involved in a planned DDOS attack against CNN.com on April 19, 2008. [Jongsma, Carl: "Chinese hackers poised for anti CNN attack on April 19", Computer World, 2008] [Claburn, Thomas: " [http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/cybercrime/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207400699 CNN Faces Cyberattack Over Tibet Coverage] " InformationWeek, 2008] CNN reported that they took preventative measures after news broke of the impending attack. [" [http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/18/cnn.websites/ CNN website targeted] ", April 18, 2008]

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