China Claimed To Be The Biggest Victim of Cyberattacks (Mainly From US, Japan & South Korea)
We are habituated of hearing that maximum of major cyber attacks on heavy industries & Govt sectors come from China. But The National Computer Network Emergency Response Coordination Center of China (CNCERT/CC), China's primary computer security monitoring network claimed that a total of 47,000 overseas IPs were involved in attacks against 8.9 million Chinese computers last year, compared to nearly 5 million affected computers in 2010.
Most of the IP addresses originated in Japan, the United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK), according to the agency. "China has become the world's biggest victim of cyber attacks," said Zhou Yonglin, an information security official from the Internet Society of China. In terms of website security, a total of 1,116 domestic websites were tampered with by overseas-based hackers; in addition, 95.8 percent of the server IPs that maliciously falsified the websites of domestic banks were also based overseas, according to the report. "Generally speaking, malicious IPs based in the U.S., Japan and the ROK posed the greatest security threat to China last year," said Wang Minghua, vice director of the CNCERT/CC's operations department.
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