Taiwan’s National Security Bureau reported that the island’s National Security Bureau’s ( NSB ) reported that the majority of cyberattacks were launched by Chinese cyber forces in 2024, a double increase from the previous year.
Taiwan has complained in recent years about what it perceives as China’s “grey-zone abuse” at a time when Beijing uses military and political force to force the democratically controlled island to take its sovereignty claim. This includes everything from normal military drills and balloons close to the island to cyberattacks.
Taiwan’s Government Service Network, or GSN, received a daily average of 2.4 million attacks last year, double the daily average of 1.2 million in 2023, according to a report by the National Security Bureau on Sunday ( Jan 5 ).
The commission offered unique details of the problems, attributing most to China’s computer forces, with telecommunications, transportations and military among the top targets.
The growing number of attacks “demonstrate the extremely serious nature of China’s malware activities,” the report said.” Although many of those attacks have been properly detected and blocked, the growing number of attacks identify the increasingly serious nature of its malware activities.
China’s Taiwan Affairs Office did not respond to a request for comment.
China often denies involvement in spying episodes, but foreign governments, particularly those in the United States, have accused it of doing so.
According to the Taiwanese report, China carried out some of the attacks in response to Chinese military exercises conducted on the island, including distributed denial-of-service ( DDoS ) attacks designed to obstruct Taiwan’s financial and transportation institutions ‘ websites.
The shift, the statement said, was meant to “intensify the abuse result and military coercion”.