China becomes major victim of cyberattacks: computer security official

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-08/10/c_131041172.htm

English.news.cn
2011-08-10

DALIAN, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- China has become one of the world's biggest 
victims of cyberattacks, with Chinese Internet operators and users being 
harassed nearly "every moment," a computer security official said 
Wednesday.

China was hit by nearly 493,000 cyberattacks last year, about half of 
which appeared to have originated from foreign countries, including the 
United States and India, according to a report issued on Tuesday by the 
National Computer Network Emergency Response Coordination Center of 
China (CNCERT/CC), the country's primary computer security monitoring 
network.

Most of the attacks came in the form of malicious "Trojan" software used 
by hackers to gain access to target computers, according to Zhou 
Yonglin, head of the CNCERT/CC's operation and management department.

About 10 percent of China's 45,000 government websites were targeted by 
hackers last year, up 67.6 percent from a year earlier, according to the 
report.

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