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Chinese institutions, companies threatened by overseas cyber attacks: report
BEIJING, Mar 10, 2013 (Xinhua via COMTEX) --
China's Internet security
watchdog said Sunday that a growing number of Chinese public
institutions and companies have been threatened by cyber attacks
from other countries or regions.
The popular news portal China.com.cn, people.com.cn and
Tibet.cn have all been victims of attack from foreign Internet
Protocol (IP) addresses in the past two months, according to a
report issued by the National Computer Network Emergency Response
Technical Team Coordination Center (CNCERT/CC).
A total of 85 websites of public institutions and companies
were hacked from September 2012 to February 2013, including
government agencies, a provincial examination authority, a
property insurance company and a virus research facility in
central China, according to the report.
It noted that attacks on 39 of those websites were recorded
from IPs within the United States.
From November 2012 to January 2013, the China National
Vulnerability Database also recorded 5,792 hacking attempts from
U.S. IP addresses, said the report.
Moreover, in the past two months, 6,747 overseas servers were
found to use Trojan or botnets to control nearly 1.9 million
mainframes in China, and 2,194 of these servers were located in
the U.S., making it the largest point of origin of cyber attacks
against China, said the report.
In addition, it said that 96 percent of phishing sites
targeting Chinese e-commerce users were running on foreign
servers, with U.S.-based servers hosting 73.1 percent.
In early February, several U.S. news organizations claimed to
have been victims of Chinese hackers. Some even accused the
Chinese government of supporting such attacks.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of National
Defense promptly refuted the accusations and reiterated China's
resolve in combating cyber crimes.
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