50,000 cyber attacks hit China, some from India

August 10, 2011 11:16

From the South China Morning Post.

China says it has been hit by 500,000 cyber attacks and that half of last year's strikes came from overseas, including the US and India.

The news comes days after US firm McAfee said it had uncovered a massive "five-year targeted" global cyber spying campaign by one unnamed actor - which many analysts said was China. Xinhua said that according to a government report most of the attacks on China came as Trojan software - a malicious programme that masquerades as an application.

Nearly 15 per cent of the destructive programmes came from IP addresses in the United States, while another 8 per cent originated in India, said the report by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Co-ordination Centre.

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