The U.S. and many allies accused China of backing multiple cyberattacks, including the March strike against Microsoft.
It's not the first time Telegram has been hit with a suspected DDoS attack originating from China. In 2015, the company experienced an attack just as China was set to crack down on human rights lawyers who were using the service. Protestors in Hong Kong took to the streets on Wednesday...
New York Times Alleges Sophisticated Cyberattack Originating from ChinaWan, William
The method is usually used in attack operations against other countries' telecommunication and network operators. When the NSA gains control of the targeted telecom network operator's system, it is able to monitor the target's cellphone communication content. In the attack against Northwestern Polytech...
The article concludes that up to now, there has been no response from hackers abroad to Chinese hackers attacking CNN websites and Tibetan drug websites. But hackers may be waiting for the opportunity to attack China's website during the Olympics. Any such accident will produce the greatest ...
The large number of cases in China and other countries disclosed in the report are additional proof of the global cyberattacks launched by the CIA over the years, and the international community should stay on high alert against those moves, Mao said.Currently, the CIA's cyberattack weapons ...
New Zealand joined in the campaign against China the next day, with Defense Minister Judith Collins attributing a 2021 cyberattack on the Parliamentary Service and Parliamentary Counsel Office to purported "China-linked" entities. In response, a Chinese embassy spokesperson rebuffed the allegations as ...
“We just can’t cut China off,” he said. Articulating a response to government-led cyber attacks isn’t easy. “We have to keep one thing in mind — it is extremely difficult to attribute a cyber attack to a foreign government,” said Greg Nojeim, senior counsel at the Cen...
Akamai identifies the source of Internet attacks by IP address. As one example listed in the report, a criminal in Russia may be launching attacks from compromised systems in China. Among other countries, the US was identified as the source of 19 percent of attack traffic last quarter, followe...
China’s ministry of foreign affairs described the allegations as “absurd”. Beijing was “resolutely opposed to any form of cyber attack”, a spokesman said. Yet the number of Asia-Pacific countries who have adopted offensive cyber abilities, defined as the ability to disrupt or damage systems...