Google Warns China Is Ramping Up Cyberattacks Against Taiwan (bloomberg.com) 15
China is waging a growing number of cyberattacks on neighboring Taiwan, according to cybersecurity experts at Alphabet's Google. From a report: Google has observed a "massive increase" in Chinese cyberattacks on Taiwan in the last six months or so, said Kate Morgan, a senior engineering manager in Google's threat analysis division, which monitors government-sponsored hacking campaigns. Morgan warned that Chinese hackers are employing tactics that make their work difficult to track, such as breaking into small home and office internet routers and repurposing them to wage attacks while masking their true origin.
"The number of groups in China that are performing hacking and trying to get into technology companies or get into cloud customers is huge," Morgan said. "I don't have the exact number, but it is probably over 100 groups that we are tracking just out of China alone." The hackers are going "after everything," including defense sector, government and private industry on the island, she said. Google's findings come as concerns have grown over the prospect of a conflict in Taiwan. The relationship between the US -- Taiwan's top military backer -- and China has deteriorated in recent years over a wide range of issues including Taiwan, human rights and a race to dominate advanced technologies such as chips, quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
"The number of groups in China that are performing hacking and trying to get into technology companies or get into cloud customers is huge," Morgan said. "I don't have the exact number, but it is probably over 100 groups that we are tracking just out of China alone." The hackers are going "after everything," including defense sector, government and private industry on the island, she said. Google's findings come as concerns have grown over the prospect of a conflict in Taiwan. The relationship between the US -- Taiwan's top military backer -- and China has deteriorated in recent years over a wide range of issues including Taiwan, human rights and a race to dominate advanced technologies such as chips, quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
Fuck the Chinese government (Score:3)
Question Google's interests (Score:3)
The only reason Google may be seeing this and warning about it is the cyberattacks are causing them to lose ad revenue in Taiwan.
Re:How to freeze the Taiwan issue (Score:5, Insightful)
And that worked out so well for Hong Kong.
Re:How to freeze the Taiwan issue (Score:5, Insightful)
See Hong Kong, they're promised 50 years of self rule. 20 years is a good run. As someone from Taiwan, I'll trust CCP as much as I can throw it.
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It's high time for Taiwan to reclaim West Taiwan.
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That's going to be downfall of most places.. not caring one iota about the long term cost.. so long as their pockets get lined with money NOW..
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Project Zero (Score:3)
If Project Zero wants to be more effective then what they should be doing is using the zero-days they do find to steal information from APT groups like this. Nations state groups like these will have unseen malware (to be submitted for analysis) and additional zero-days.
Seems like a good shortcut that would keep more people safe.
Why? (Score:1)
Why would China be ramping up cyber attacks against it's own country?
Re:Why? I dono the elections maybe? (Score:3)
https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com]