China issues bounty for hackers it says are linked to Taiwan

[Starmix]

From the report in Beijing, China, it said that the public security bureau in the Chinese city of Guangzhou has put up an undisclosed bounty for more than 20 people it suspects carried out cyber-attacks in China, the official news agency Xinhua said on Thursday, June 5, stepping up accusations against Taipei. The authorities said the hackers were linked to the Taiwan government and named one of them as Ning Enwei. There was no information on the size of the bounty in Chinese state media. Chinese authorities accused Taiwan of organizing, planning and premeditating attacks on key sectors such as military, aerospace, government departments, energy and transportation, maritime affairs, science and technology research firms in China, as well as in special administration regions Hong Kong and Macau, Xinhua said.

The report said tht Xinhua, citing a cybersecurity report, said the Taiwan “information, communication and digital army” has cooperated with US anti-Chinese forces to conduct public opinion and cognitive warfare against China, secretly. A senior Taiwan security official told Reuters that the Chinese allegations were invented, saying Beijing was trying to shift the focus from Czech and European scrutiny over alleged Chinese hacking activities there.

The report added , China also said Taiwan had longstanding cooperation with the US National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies for the United States’ Asia-Pacific Strategy calling it Taiwan’s attempt to gain independence through relying on the United States.

In addition, the US intelligence department has long provided personnel training and technical equipment support for Taiwan’s ‘information, communication and digital army’, and many police stations have sent ‘hunting’ teams to Taiwan, to launch a cyber-attack on China.

 

[eLdavis]

I hope they are able to catch the hackers though, these hackers now are doing too much these days to b honest.

 

[Starmix]

China forgot that Chinese are also wanted hackers on the web. Some Chinese nationals hacked the website of the Office of the Commission on Election during the previous election. But they were all caught and jailed. There were 5 of them and one is a Filipino who guided the hackers. It should be better for China not to use media to avoid getting exposed also.