The "Rising 2012 China Information Security Comprehensive Report" recently released has analyzed in detail the current situation in the Chinese information security market in 2012 on viruses, malicious websites, phishing, personal privacy information security and other illegal organizations such as hackers and information trafficking gangs. A follow-up analysis was conducted to reveal for the first time the underground industrial chain that sells citizens’ personal privacy information.

According to the report, from the perspective of the overall situation in 2012, hackers and cyber fraudsters were stealthily acquiring personal identities while stealing money from Internet users. Personal privacy has become a “stuck commodity” on the Internet. The report also disclosed the underground industrial chain that sells private information: First, hackers and corporate ghosts took away personal privacy such as user information, and sold it to middlemen; and then the middlemen sold it to black media and black ads. , fraud gangs and other criminals; after receiving the personal privacy, the above four categories of people take spam calls, junk messages, spam, targeted fraud, extortion and other illegal activities; on this basis, more accurate personal privacy information is formed, and then Sell ​​it back to the middlemen to form a new round of circulation.