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Vietnamese hackers trigger software trap after Australian sale of newspaper in Cambodia


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Excusive by South-East Asia correspondent Liam Cochrane

A Vietnamese state-linked hacking group has used Cambodia's Phnom Penh Post website to target a local human rights organisation with malicious code and it comes just days after the Australian-owned newspaper was sold to a Malaysian spin doctor.

 
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A person reads the Phnom Penh Post. (Credit: ABC licensed) 

A Vietnamese state-linked hacking group has used a Cambodian newspaper website to attack a local human rights organisation, according to a leading cyber security firm.

 

The attack started just days after Australian mining magnate Bill Clough sold the newspaper to Malaysian spin doctor Sivakumar Ganapathy, who specialises in "covert PR".

 

read more http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2018-05-15/vietnamese-hackers-trigger-software-trap-after-australian-sale-of-newspaper-in-cambodia/1756488

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