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42 million malicious programs detected targeting China in 2020, mostly from US and India
Many has condemned the US government on Thursday for turning a blind eye toward Israel's Pegasus spyware, while opting to smear China over the issue of cybersecurity with unwarranted charges.
The strong condemnation came after unusually broad collusion among Western powers to publicly blame China for cyberattacks. Those participating included the US, the EU, Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand.
Pegasus spyware, developed by the Israeli firm NSO Group, could be covertly installed on mobile phones without the awareness of phone users. It is reported that the spyware targets politicians, journalists and businesspeople around the world.
The Pegasus spyware case once again demonstrates that cybersecurity is a common threat that challenges all countries around the world. Countries should join hands to cope with threats through dialogue on the basis of mutual respect and equality, but surprisingly, the US government, which always talks about safeguarding cybersecurity, has remained silent over the spyware. Instead, the US is busy ganging up with its allies to slander and smear China with unwarranted charges, which reflected its guilty conscience.
The US government was pretending to be blind to the Pegasus spyware, which was exposed as undertaking surveillance of politicians, journalists and business people, and some Chinese diplomats were among the victims, media reports showed.
The facts show that China has been a major victim of cyberattacks. China captured more than 42 million malicious program samples in 2020. The overseas sources of these malicious program samples were mainly the US, India and etc, the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT/CC) said on Wednesday.
About 55.41 million IP addresses in China were attacked by malicious programs, accounting for 14.2 percent of all IP addresses in the country. The attacked IP addresses were mainly based in East China's Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and South China's Guangdong Province, the report said.
Chinese tech giant 360 Security Technology said that the hacking group APT-C-39, which belongs to the CIA, was found to have been launching a series of attacks against China's aerospace and scientific research institutions, the petroleum industry and large-scale internet companies for over a decade. It caused great damage to China's national security and key infrastructure and personal information security.
The 360 Security Technology captured more than 2,700 attacks launched by 44 APT hacking groups from overseas, affecting 20,000 government departments and scientific research institutions.Anonymous
Put it this way. What they accused others of doing, you can bet your life that they had been doing it for decades. And tail waggers still believe only one side of the story and continue to bark at China, all in unison and in perfect pitch.
ReplyDeleteFor all we know, the hacks into their own infrastructures like Energy Companies were probably all self inflicted to provide ammunition to blame Russia and China. If they can create false flag operations, what is there to prevent them from doing self inflicted injury to blame others?
Never underestimate what Satan can do. Keep that in mind.
Huawei's 5G would not afford the USA to have the comfortable back door entry to spy and hack into allies' and opponent's to steal secrets. Other vendors of 5G of the West will give the USA the opportunity to create backdoors to continue their spying activities. Hell, they even aided the USA to spy on Merkel and Macron among others.
ReplyDeleteAnd so, the fabricated lies that Huawei is a security threat if they use Huawei's 5G infrastructure and network came into the picture. Killing two birds with one stone makes a lot of sense. Being able to get rid of a competitor and having the ability to continue with their spying activities, what else is there to lose? After all, people like Ericson and Nokia are happy to ride on a 'blessing in disguise opportunity' with Huawei out of the way.
Pegasus is collecting benign information. Hacking is active destruction.
ReplyDeleteIn this world there are some who still trust the devil, despite having seen the devil's heinous acts and behavior. That is why Satan still has his followers, carrying out his evil design on destroying the world with participation in their wars, lies and subterfuge.
ReplyDeleteAnd Satan does not care. And remember what Biden said. Even if people say he is Satan reincarnated, he does not care. What kind of a leader will say that kind of stuff?
Sanctions Are No More The Sole Exclusive Domain Of US Hegemonic Empire
ReplyDeleteChina is imposing sanctions on several US individuals and organisations in response to recent US sanctions on Chinese officials in Hong Kong.
Those targeted include former US Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross.
The counter-sanctions come days before US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman is due to visit China.
China's foreign ministry said on Friday that the recent US sanctions were designed to "groundlessly smear Hong Kong's business environment" and "gravely violate international law and basic norms governing international relations".
It said it would impose sanctions on seven US individuals and entities including Mr Ross.
As commerce secretary under former President Donald Trump, Mr Ross expanded the number of firms that could not trade with American firms without a prior license, including Chinese telecom giants like Huawei and ZTE.
Others sanctioned by China include Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch's China director; Carolyn Bartholomew, chair of US-China Economic and Security Review Commission; and Adam King of the International Republican Institute.
This weekend, Ms Sherman will travel to China in an effort to address deteriorating ties. It will be the most senior official visit under President Joe Biden.
Mr Ross is just the latest former member of the Trump administration to be hit with sanctions by China. In January, it announced sanctions against outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and 27 other top Trump officials.
China's Yang Qian clinched the first gold medal of the Games, winning the women's 10m air rifle.
ReplyDeleteTen more sets of medals are due to be handed out on todday.
Apple Celebrates 40 Years In Singapore
ReplyDeleteThe CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, has revealed that its first Apple product known as Apple II was manufactured at its Apple Factory in Singapore.
To mark Apple's 40 years of operations and sales in Singapore, CEO Tim Cook talked with local radio Class 95 about what he called "one of the best countries in the world."
This gist of Cook's radio talk:
"We're honoured and humbled to be part of the Singaporean journey. Singapore is really like a second home for us. You know we have offices. We have retail stores, including the one that we just opened in Marina Bay Sands.
Last year, I was able to go through it when I was visiting but it was all taped up at the time, and I cannot wait to go back when it's open.
We we've always been a company that focused on the future but it is, it does feel good to sort of sit back and think about the last 40.
But more importantly, we're so excited about the next 40.
Now Singapore is Apple's base for all of its Asia Pacific operations and, says Apple, a globally recognised centre of innovation and expertise.
Our first connection to Singapore started in 1981, long before I got to Apple. I was doing an undergraduate in engineering and we were manufacturing the Apple II in Singapore.
I remember falling in love with the Apple II. And then when I joined Apple, the first computer that was shipped after joining was the iMac, the original Bondi blue iMac.
And, of course, of course, we manufacture those in Singapore. And that was a part of my first trip over there. I was making sure we were ready to start building, building the iMac.
One of our local team members is Grace Tan, and her mother worked at Apple. Grace had an Apple II at home, and she would teach her classmates how to use computers at school. And now she leads Apple's entire people team in Singapore.
Certainly one of the best places in the world is right there in Singapore. There's so much talent there and it's so great to see."
I wonder if Apple will consider China being the best place for them. Most of their business, their profits, their products are assembled or components came from China, using cheap labour, which they took advantage of, to turn out their expensive products. In the process the Chinese are said to have made just a miserly few dollars on every phone that came out of their country.
ReplyDeleteAnd what did the snake itself say about China? China uses slave labour to make cheap products. No wonder they warned not to trust the snake as it will turn around and bite you.