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China accuses India for e-attacks
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 10 August 2011, 20:19 IST
Bangalore: China blamed India for the cyber attacks in the country and said that almost 8 percent of the cyber attacks last year targeted at its computers emerged from India.
India was accused by China after the security company McAfee unwrapped a five-year global spying campaign run by an unnamed "state actor" to insert 72 organizations including the governments of India, the U.S., Canada, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, United Nations and the International Olympic Committee. Security experts said the main suspect was China.
China's official news agency Xinhua quoted an official computer security report and stated, "China suffered about 493,000 cyber attacks last year, about half of which originated from abroad, particularly the United States and India,"
The National Computer Network Emergency Response Coordination Centre of China reported that almost 15 percent of these malicious programs buzzed from Internet Protocol or IP addresses situated in the U.S., and another eight percent situated in India.
It also included that a majority of these nearly five Lakh hits on Chinese computers last year were in the form of malicious Trojan software disguised in the form of a computer application.
Beijing has refused a stack of accusations that hackers inside China were aiming attacks on foreign computers and Gmail accounts over the last two years. Xinhua released a brief statement addressing the accusations based on the McAfee report "irresponsible".
