CERT China claims Japan and US lead in attacks on Chinese internet sites

Dermot7 · Mar 22, 2012

The People's Daily Online reported Monday that the number of foreign attacks against Chinese internet infrastructure "remain severe." China's CERT stated that a total of 47,000 foreign IP addresses were involved in attacks against 8.9 million Chinese computers last year.
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EncryptedBytes · Mar 22, 2012

From the same article

Looking at China CERT's most recent weekly report, approximately 90% of infections in China are from the Conficker worm, which was first discovered in November 2008.

Microsoft statistics show a large number of Chinese PC users are using pirated copies of Windows. Many users who use unlicensed copies of Windows are afraid to apply security updates fearing they will somehow be reported.
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Seems the more likely scenario is poor judgment when it comes to security and software and less cybercriminal warfare. I agree with this authors assesment.

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