Get the latest tech news
Western governments struggle to coordinate response to Chinese hacking
Experts say UK-imposed sanctions will make no difference when hacking is part of ecosystem of dealing with Beijing
The government revealed the historical hacking attempts on the same day that it pointed the finger at a “Chinese state-affiliated entity” for compromising the Electoral Commission’s systems between 2021 and 2022. The government has “conflated two separate issues in a way that is quite confusing to the general public”, said Jamie MacColl, a research fellow in cybersecurity at the Royal United Services Institute thinktank. Danowski says that since the US indicted hackers associated with a company called Chengdu 404 in 2020, its business operations in China have carried on as normal, suggesting that the “name and shame” tactic adopted by the US and the UK this week may be symbolic at best.
Or read this on r/technology
