A Taiwanese political party suspects the Chinese government is behind a hacking attack that stole information about the party’s election activities.<\/p>\n
Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) said on Tuesday that some of the attacks had been traced to China’s Xinhua News Agency, a state-run press group. The attack operated as a phishing campaign, in which DPP staffers were sent e-mails by hackers who attempted to impersonate other party employees. The staffers were then told to open the e-mail attachments, which secretly contained viruses to monitor the computers, a DPP spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n
The DPP alleges the attacks were routed from the Xinhua News Agency through Malaysia and Australia. The attacks were also traced to IP addresses from the Chinese mainland. The Xinhua News Agency was contacted for response, but has yet to an issue a comment.<\/p>\n
IT security experts have said the attacks were part of a state-sponsored hacking attempt, according to the DPP. “Already many countries and security groups have said the attacks from China’s cyber army are well organized and that a state actor guides and supports them,” the DPP said in statement issued on the party’s website. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As we all know, Taiwan and China<\/a> are not really the best of friends with China claiming Taiwan to be part of it and Taiwan not quite agreeing. In China they fully act like Taiwan is just another state\/province in China.<\/p>\nThis time it seems to be a state run Chinese news agency (Xinhua) attacking Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (commonly know as DPP).<\/p>\n
These are of course at this time just claims, and it’ll probably stay that way as there’s no conclusive proof in these kind of situations.<\/p>\n