Fiber Optic Telecommunications Networks: UglyGorilla Hacker Left Tracks, U.S. Cyber-Hunters Say

James F. Booth

For more than 25 years, James Booth has provided consulting and legal services to telecommunications carriers and to enterprise companies that manage their own telecommunications networks. Since June of 2009 he has also served as General Counsel of Spread Networks, LLC, which is the industry leader in the construction and operation of low latency high speed networks. Before joining Spread he was General Counsel for OnFiber Communications, a competitive telecommunications provider, and was the sole attorney for Qwest Communications International in support of its construction of an 18,800 mile fiber optic network spanning the United States. Earlier he was lead counsel for U S WEST in its wireless and cable television ventures in the United States, Europe and Hong Kong.

Saturday, June 14, 2014

UglyGorilla Hacker Left Tracks, U.S. Cyber-Hunters Say

Prosecutors building a case against Wang Dong, one of five Chinese military hackers indicted this week for economic espionage, were helped by Wang’s apparent willingness to break a cardinal rule of spying: Leave no tracks.

Known as UglyGorilla, Wang is a pun-making hacker who left a string of clues dating back years, according to several security professionals who have pursued him. He became famous in counterintelligence circles as China’s most flamboyant hacker, as he seeded malicious code with his handle and left the initials “UG” in the logs of thousands of compromised computers.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-22/uglygorilla-hacker-left-tracks-u-s-cyber-hunters-say.html