Hacking for Fun and Profit in China’s Underworl

“With a few quick keystrokes, a computer hacker who goes by the
code name Majia calls up a screen displaying his

““Here’s a list of the people who’ve been
infected with my Trojan horse,” he says, working from a dingy
apartment on the outskirts of this city in central China.
“They don’t even know what’s happened.”

“As he explains it, an online “trapdoor” he created
just over a week ago has already lured 2,000 people from China and
overseas — people who clicked on something they should not
have, inadvertently spreading a virus that allows him to take
control of their computers and steal bank account passwords.”

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