China said on Friday that it has been the target of continuous cyber attacks since before the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, most of which originated in the US, according to state news agency Xinhua.
The attacks took control of computers in China to target other computers in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, the agency said.
The National Computer Network Emergency Response Centre, a cybersecurity group, had “dealt with” the attacks to the “maximum extent”, Xinhua said.
An analysis revealed that most of the source addresses were in the US, with a small number from Germany, the Netherlands and other countries.
“There were more than 10 attack addresses from New York state alone,” Xinhua reported, citing the cybersecurity centre.
Last week, NATO announced that Ukraine would join the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence as a “contributing participant.”
“Ukraine could bring valuable first-hand knowledge of several adversaries within the cyber domain to be used for research, exercises and training,” Colonel Jaak Tarien, the centre’s director, said in a statement.
The centre, which is based in Estonia, would benefit from Ukraine’s “valuable experience from previous cyberattacks,” Tarien said.
Ukraine would be admitted after writing to express its interest in joining the centre. “The centre has already expanded its membership outside the NATO nations,” it added.
- Reuters, with additional editing by George Russell
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