Russia: Chinese planting hidden chips in Irons & electric kettles which serve malware in systems

China is planting Microchips practically in every electrical device, as recently it has been discovered that the electric iron and kettles were modified with this technique to launch spam attacks.

How will you react when you will came to know—your Chinese Iron has inbuilt chip which is being used to server malware on to your systems, well if you talk mine then i will throw that outside and will call that “The NSA Aunty.”

A Russian TV Rossiya 24 reported about this Malware machine even they showed footage of technician while opening the Iron included in a batch of Chinese imports to find a “spy chip” with what he called “a little microphone”.

These types of hidden chips are being used to spread viruses through connecting to any computer with in a 200m (656ft) radius which were using unprotected Wi-Fi networks. Other components like mobile phones and car dashboard cameras are also affected with this hidden chip, the Russian TV reported.

One thing also reported by the channel that these hidden chips look small, but had been attacked company networks, sending out spam without administrators’ knowledge.

According to a news agency the latest order of these irons have been cancelled but more than 30 devices had already been sent to retailers in St. Petersburg.

From now, would you like to bring that NSA aunty to your home, tell us in comments, we like to hear from you.

China hit by DDoS attack causes Internet inaccessible for hours

During the weekend China's Internet was taken down by a powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the .cn domain slowed and blocked Internet access inaccessibility for hours.

Security expert clarified that China could have been perpetrated by sophisticated hackers or by a single individual. The China Internet Network Information Center [CINIC] reported that the attack began at 02:00 local time on Sunday with a peek at 04:00 that made it the largest DDoS attack the country’s networks have ever faced. The CCINIC is responsible for registering sites in the .cn domain.

Before malicious coders can launch a DDoS attack, they must infect the computers of unsuspecting users, often by tricking people into installing malware on their computers.

The China Internet Network Information Center confirmed the attack with an official statement informing internet users that it is gradually restoring web services and that will operate to improve the security level of the Internet infrastructure of the country to prevent and mitigate further attacks.

Following the translated announcement: "8 May 25 at 0:00 or so, the State DNS node Denial of Service attacks, the China Internet Network Information Center disposal, to 2 pm, the service is restored to normal, early morning 3 through the official micro notice. Morning four o'clock, the state once again under DNS node biggest ever denial of service attacks, some websites analytical affected, leading to slow or interrupt access. 

In the notice, the attack continues, national domain name resolution services have been gradually restored. Ministry of Industry and Information Technology launched the "Domain Name System Security specific contingency plans" to further the protection of national domain name resolution services. China Internet Network Information Center, the affected user apologized to launch cyber attacks on the Internet stable behavior affect condemned. China Internet Network Information Center will work with the sector to work together to continue to enhance the service capabilities."

The Wall Street Journal was the first media agency that reported the important outage, the official source of Chinese Government confirmed that its network suffered the biggest distributed denial-of-service attack ever.

It's not currently known who attacked the Chinese domain or the motivations, CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince said that there is no certainty that behind the attack there is a group of hackers, he added that "it may have well been a single individual".