Taipei: Major Taiwanese government websites were forced to temporarily go offline due to cyber attacks involving China and Russia during the US House Speaker. Nancy PelosicThe trip to the island, Taipei said on Thursday.
The websites of the presidential office, the foreign ministry and the main official English portal were attacked on Tuesday night when Pelosi arrived in Beijing for a historic visit that angered Beijing.
China, which claims to be a self-governing democracy Taiwan As part of its territory to be seized one day, Responsi on Thursday began its largest-ever military exercise around the island.
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry also said that its website was offline for an hour around midnight on Wednesday due to the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
DDoS is a simple disruption attack that overloads a website with requests for information. It does not involve hacking.
According to Taiwan’s foreign ministry, the attacks on its website and the government’s English portal were linked to Chinese and Russian IP addresses that tried to access the websites 8.5 million times per minute.
“Since cyber attacks from hostile foreign forces can still occur at any time, the Ministry of External Affairs will continue to remain vigilant,” the spokesperson said. joan ow told reporters on Thursday.
The presidential office said it would monitor itself to counter a “hybrid information war by external forces”.
Taipei has accused Beijing of intensifying cyber attacks since the 2016 election of President Tsai Ing-wen, who views the island as a sovereign nation and not part of China.
Officials have said that Taiwan’s government agencies face nearly five million cyberattacks and investigations a day.
In 2020, Taiwanese officials said Chinese hackers infiltrated at least 10 Taiwanese government agencies and gained access to nearly 6,000 email accounts in an attempt to steal data.
The websites of the presidential office, the foreign ministry and the main official English portal were attacked on Tuesday night when Pelosi arrived in Beijing for a historic visit that angered Beijing.
China, which claims to be a self-governing democracy Taiwan As part of its territory to be seized one day, Responsi on Thursday began its largest-ever military exercise around the island.
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry also said that its website was offline for an hour around midnight on Wednesday due to the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
DDoS is a simple disruption attack that overloads a website with requests for information. It does not involve hacking.
According to Taiwan’s foreign ministry, the attacks on its website and the government’s English portal were linked to Chinese and Russian IP addresses that tried to access the websites 8.5 million times per minute.
“Since cyber attacks from hostile foreign forces can still occur at any time, the Ministry of External Affairs will continue to remain vigilant,” the spokesperson said. joan ow told reporters on Thursday.
The presidential office said it would monitor itself to counter a “hybrid information war by external forces”.
Taipei has accused Beijing of intensifying cyber attacks since the 2016 election of President Tsai Ing-wen, who views the island as a sovereign nation and not part of China.
Officials have said that Taiwan’s government agencies face nearly five million cyberattacks and investigations a day.
In 2020, Taiwanese officials said Chinese hackers infiltrated at least 10 Taiwanese government agencies and gained access to nearly 6,000 email accounts in an attempt to steal data.