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36°42′07″N 116°59′31″E / 36.702°N 116.992°E The Shandong Lanxiang Vocational School (simplified Chinese: 山东蓝翔高级技工学校; traditional Chinese: 山東藍翔高級技工學校; pinyin: Shāndōng Lánxiáng Gāojí Jìgōng Xuéxiào), colloquially Lanxiang (Chinese: 蓝翔), is a vocational school in the Tianqiao District of Jinan, Shandong, China.
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| School type | Private Vocational School |
| Established | 1984 |
The school was founded in 1984[1] and is said to have been established with support from the People's Liberation Army.[2] The school admits about 20,000 students per year[1] and offers courses in subjects like cooking, auto repair, construction equipment operations (specialized in excavator), hairdressing, as well as computer skills.[1]
Cyber attacks
editThe school has been suspected as a site from which cyber attacks were launched in 2009 (Operation Aurora[2]) and in 2011;[1] school officials denied that their school launched the attacks.[1]
The school also hosts the command and control server for malware embedded in handled scanners built by a company physically located near the school.[3]
According to the website Week in China, this school is known for its computer training programmes offered to Chinese students and is infamous abroad as a breeding ground for an army of hackers originating from China. The fact that the school was owned by the People's Liberation Army until 2000 further fuelled speculation. However, Zhihu Daily, a Chinese internet newspaper, reported that one its undercover journalists discovered that most of the students at this school were unmotivated farmers who would not be remotely capable of hacking US _targets. It remains an open question whether this is an exercise in disinformation.[4]
Address
editThe street address of the school is 11 Mid Lanxiang Road (Chinese: 蓝翔中路11号).
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Watts, Jonathan (2 June 2011). "Gmail hack: phishing finger pointed at China's Lanxiang vocational school". The Guardian.
- ^ a b "2 China Schools Said to Be Tied to Online Attacks". The New York Times. 19 February 2010.
- ^ "Anatomy of the Attack: Zombie Zero" (PDF). TrapX Security. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-07-14.
- ^ Winn, Howard (11 October 2014). "MTR linked to company involved in CY Leung payments row". South China Morning Post.
External links
edit- Official website
(in Chinese)
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