According to latest reports, Chinese hackers have become very active, specifically targeting various Indian military research bodies. Also on the hit list are Tibetan activists.

Tokyo-based Trend Micro has reported that the hacking campaign dubbed ‘Lucky cat’ targeted Indian military research institutions, entities in Japan as well as the Tibetan community. The campaign, active since June 2011, has been linked to 90 attacks against targets in Japan and India as well as Tibetan activists. In all, the Luck cat campaign managed to compromise 233 computers in systematic attacks.

Victims of the attack also include Indian shipping companies, Japan’s aerospace, energy and engineering companies and at least 30 computer systems of Tibetan advocacy groups. Trend Micro said each malware attack involves a unique campaign code that can be used to track which victims were compromised by which malware attack.

Trend Micro tracked elements of the cyber attack campaign to hackers based in China.