Pemeritah Cina telah menutup sebuah Situs untuk training para Hackers secara online, yaitu Black Hawk Safety Net. Website ini juga menyediakan distributed malware dan software tools untuk hacking secara online. Hackers yang telah tergabung pada Website ini mencapai 180.000 orang dan memiliki Forum Diskusi online.

Website Hackers ini dibangun pada tahun 2005 dan berpusat di kota Xuchang. Kelompok ini telah dicurigai sejak tahun 2007 ketika terjadi serangan hackers atas kota "Macheng" di Cina.

Dalam penggerebekan kali ini ditangkap tiga orang yang dituduk melakukan training dan pelatihan melalui website Black Hawk Safey Net itu.

Penangkapan ini terkait dengan tuduhan serangan hackers Cina atas 30 perusahaan2 AS termasuk Google pada akhir tahun lalu.

Berita lengkapnya ada dibawah ini:

China officials have shut down Black Hawk Safety Net, the country's biggest hacker training Website, and arrested three people for making hacker tools available online.

China announced it has arrested three people in connection with operating a hacker training school that distributed malware and hacking tools to its members in online forums.

According to Xinhua, "China ’s state-run newspaper, three people were arrested in connection with making the tools available online through a business known as Black Hawk Safety Net. Established in 2005, Black Hawk Safety Net is reportedly headquartered in Xuchang of the central"Province and has more than 180,000 members. Police reportedly uncovered the operation as part of an investigation into a cyber-attack in"Macheng" City in 2007.

The three suspects arrested in the case are charged with offering online hacker tools, a crime newly listed in the country's criminal law last year, the paper reported.

The announcement about the arrests came as "China and the "United States grapple over cyber-security issues. "China has been at the center of accusations involving a spate of cyber-attacks last year that affected more than 30 companies, including Google, which claimed an attack on its infrastructure originated in China. Google threatened to pull out of the country in response to the situation, as well as to concerns about censorship and what it deemed were attempts to spy on the e-mail of Chinese human rights activists.

The Chinese government has sought to discredit those claims, and has publicly denied anyinvolvement in the attacks. Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department has said it will press the Chinese government for answers, and the Senate passed a resolution Feb. 3calling on the Chinese government to conduct a thorough and transparent review of the cyber-attacks.

China says hackers caused 7.6 billion yuan ($1.02 billion) in losses in the country in 2009. (source: eWeek.com)