China responsible for two thirds of state-sponsored cyber attacks

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Foreign governments like China and Russia are increasingly blending their cyber capabilities with criminal networks to hide their identity.

believe was sponsored by China’s Ministry of State Security. It has been alleged the Chinese government agency paid criminal groups to conduct ransomware attacks to extort millions of dollars from companies.Crowdstrike’s chief technology officer Mike Sentonas said the activities of “e-crime” groups and foreign states were now starting to merge.

Over the past year, cyber attacks against telecommunications and retail more than doubled, professional services saw a more than 90 per cent increase in hacks, while the government and academic sectors experienced an 80 per cent rise.Both state actors and criminal networks are increasingly exploiting existing vulnerabilities on servers and networks – rather than infecting a system with malware – which makes them harder to detect.

The Australian Cyber Security Centre received 67,500 reports last financial year, up 13 per cent on the previous 12 months. The report showed 20 per cent of cyber incident reports coming from the Commonwealth government and 15 per cent from state and territories - but it is believed there is a massive underreporting from Australian businesses.

 

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That's a bit ambarassing for being 1 at 67% caught red-handed. The official Great Wall of Fire is nothing more than a cyber criminal rabbit fence? Ambarassing.

Give the world covid. Shut down it’s health systems. That’s next level evil

Do you have proof ornis that your opinion?

Well.... since you have strong evidence that China sponsored these cyber attack... aren’t these war behaviors? Then why no countries fight it back or claim a war-state with China?

Quick. Buy some nuke-powered subs

Brought to you by warmongers media as nuclear holocaust is back on their agenda to save the US$ dominant 😛😛

Just remember that Dan Andrews has four offices in China and went against Australia when signing us up to the Communist China Party Belt & Road scam.

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