Last year, hackers attacked the National Games of China

Avast analysts said that in the fall of 2021, unknown people attacked the IT infrastructure of the National Games of China a few days before the start of the competition. The competition, modeled after the rules of the Olympic Games but accepting only Chinese athletes, is the largest and most comprehensive sporting event in China.

To move sideways across the network, the attackers used a framework written in the Go language, which had special plugins for a number of known vulnerabilities.

Avast says it learned about the incident from an incident report found by researchers on VirusTotal, which contained details about one of the exploited vulnerabilities. Also, shortly before that, one of the company’s analysts discovered a malware with a strange extension, which was the initial impetus for starting an investigation.

At the same time, according to the company, the Chinese side managed to cope with the attack even before the start of the competition.

Let me remind you that we wrote that Mandatory My 2022 App Endangers Beijing Olympics Competitors, as well as US authorities accused six Russians of NotPetya, KillDisk and OlympicDestroyer attacks.