Taiwan warns Chinese cyberattacks are intensifying

Date:
Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:24:00 +0000

Description:
Breaches and misinformation campaigns are up 17% year-on-year.

FULL STORY

Chinas cyberattacks and misinformation campaigns against Taiwan are
escalating, as the Red Dragon looks to degrade public trust against the government ahead of the Taiwanese 2026 local elections.

This is according to the Taiwanese National Security Bureau (NSB), who
recently presented a new security report in front of the countrys parliament, The Record reported. As per the NSB, whose findings were cited by the local media, government networks faced an average of 2.8 million intrusions every
day this year, up 17% compared to the year prior.

Besides intrusions, China is also engaged in a major misinformation campaign, which includes an online troll army that spreads fake news via social media
and online forums.

Fake news

The majority of these intrusions were attributed to the countrys aggressive western neighbor, who allegedly targeted critical infrastructure
organizations, such as defense, telecommunications, energy, and medical institutions.

Beyond intelligence theft, these operations integrate dark web, internet
forum, and media channels to disseminate fabricated content, the NSB wrote in its report.

So far, NSB found more than 10,000 social media accounts used for this
purpose, who distributed more than 1.5 million fake news posts. Many promote
a pro-China stance and lie about things like tariff negotiations with the US and different domestic policies.

For years, China has been one of the most active threat actors among western government organizations, next to Iran, North Korea, and Russia. Its groups, such as Volt Typhoon, Salt Typhoon, APT41, and many others, were spotted numerous times compromising telecommunications firms , healthcare, software, and other organizations, with malware .

Their goals vary from cyber-espionage to disruption, but China has always denied all involvements and any allegations. Instead, it dubbed the US the worlds biggest cyber-bully and even accused the NSA of orchestrating numerous attacks against its own critical infrastructure organizations.

Via The Record

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