Foreign Correspondence

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Hacking Attempts from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong Increasing Rapidly


Unrestricted Warfare
Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui
(Beijing: PLA Literature and Arts Publishing House, February 1999)

Excerpt: Unrestricted Warfare

Whether it be the intrusions of hackers, a major explosion at the World Trade Center, or a bombing attack by bin Laden, all of these greatly exceed the frequency band widths understood by the American military.
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Hacking attempts through China and ethnic Chinese areas like Hong Kong and Taiwan are geometrically increasing this year. During the first half of the year, the number of hacking attempts from China increased 17 times as many as the total of last year and hacking attempts by Taiwanese people also increased by four times. Therefore, concerns over a possible start of a hacking attack from China and Chinese ethnic regions are arising.

According to the Korean Information Security Agency (KIS), a total of 10,628 cases of hacking attempts from China were reported in the first half of the year. The figure increased by 30 times and almost 17 times, compared to 353 cases in the same period of last year and 627 cases in the entire previous year.

Hacking attempts from China were concentrated between March and May this year. Hacking cases were a mere 42 and 32 in January and February. They then drastically jumped to 1,664 in March, 5,168 in April and 3,685 in May. And then, hacking attempts by Chinese people reduced once again to 37 cases in June.

Hacking attempts from Taiwan have also dramatically increased. A total of 703 Taiwanese hacking attempts were reported to the KIS till the first half of the year. The number grew by 5 times and 4 times, compared to the same period of last year (136 cases) and the entire previous year (180 cases.) The number of hacking attempts from Hong Kong has shown similar growth to those from China. A total of 2,763 cases were reported between March and May.

According to the KIS, 17,055 cases of foreign hacking attempts were reported in the first half of the year. Of them, 14,094 cases were attempted by China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, amounting to nearly 83 percent of the total cases. Hacking attempts by China and Chinese ethnic areas accounted for 50 percent of the total last year.

A cyber security expert said, “It is difficult to conclude that China, Taiwan and Hong Kong are direct hackers because other people from other countries’ might have hacked into Korea simply through those nations. But, it is clear that the number of hackers based in China is rapidly growing.”

(Kim Ki-hong, [e-mail] )



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