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China warns foreign hackers are infiltrating ‘hundreds’ of business and government networks
Top spy agency urges Chinese citizens to step up cybersecurity as attacks by overseas agencies have been ‘rampant’ in recent years.
China’s state security authority warned that the networks of “hundreds” of Chinese business and government units have been infiltrated by an overseas hacking group and urged citizens to step up cybersecurity. The Ministry of State Security on Thursday posted a message on its official WeChat account to highlight hacking and ransom risks, which it said could cause “huge economic losses and leakage of sensitive information” as cyberattacks by foreign agencies have been “rampant” in recent years. The WeChat post gave one example of a typical attack in which a “hi-tech enterprise” was blackmailed after its infosystem and data were encrypted and controlled by one foreign hacking group, interrupting daily operations.
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