{"id":27793,"date":"2024-04-16T16:03:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T16:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/us-urged-to-stop-smearing-china-over-cyberattacks-china-daily\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T16:03:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T16:03:39","slug":"us-urged-to-stop-smearing-china-over-cyberattacks-china-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/us-urged-to-stop-smearing-china-over-cyberattacks-china-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"US urged to stop smearing China over \u2018cyberattacks\u2019: China Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"

BEIJING, China, Apr 16 \u2014 Claims by United States politicians, intelligence community and companies that the \u201cVolt Typhoon\u201d hacking organization is \u201cChinese state-sponsored\u201d are an attempt to hype the \u201cChina threat theory\u201d and deceitfully obtain funding from the US Congress and taxpayers, according to a report from China\u2019s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Jan 31, a US congressional committee held a hearing on the so-called \u201ccyberthreat\u201d from China, claiming that \u201cChinese state-sponsored\u201d hacking organization \u201cVolt Typhoon\u201d launched a series of activities affecting networks across critical US infrastructure sectors.<\/p>\n

The allegation originated from a joint advisory by the cybersecurity authorities of the US and its \u201cFive Eyes\u201d allies \u2014 the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.<\/p>\n

The advisory was issued based on information released by US tech company Microsoft. But the report, released on Monday, pointed out that neither the advisory nor the information from Microsoft provided a detailed analytical process for source tracing of the cyberattacks from \u201cVolt Typhoon\u201d.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, analysis by Chinese technical teams showed that many of the IP addresses used by \u201cVolt Typhoon\u201d to launch the attacks were previously used by a ransomware group named \u2018Dark Power\u2019, which has no country and sectoral connection, said Du Zhenhua, a senior engineer at the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, \u2018Volt Typhoon\u2019 has more correlation with \u2018Dark Power\u2019 or other cybercriminals,\u201d Du added.<\/p>\n

The attribution by Microsoft and the \u201cFive Eyes\u201d allies was very hasty, and claiming that \u201cVolt Typhoon\u201d is China-backed based on these ambiguous factors is groundless, he added.<\/p>\n

Conspiracy <\/h2>\n

Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said on Monday at a news briefing in Beijing that there were indications that US intelligence agencies and cybersecurity companies had conspired to piece together their so-called evidence and spread false information in order to obtain congressional budget allocations and US federal government contracts.<\/p>\n

In the 2025 fiscal year budget request announced on March 11 by the administration of US President Joe Biden, the federal government\u2019s cybersecurity budget in the civil administrative departments and agencies reached a record $13 billion, a 10 percent increase from the 2024 fiscal year.<\/p>\n

Also, the \u201cChina threat\u201d theory has become the best selling point for cybersecurity companies to explore the US and European markets. In short, US politicians, officials and entrepreneurs can all benefit from the \u201cVolt Typhoon \u201ccampaign, the report said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s well known that the US is the biggest source of cyberattacks, posing the greatest threat to cybersecurity. For some time, certain individuals in the US have been crying \u2018thief\u2019 while acting as the thief and using \u2018cyberattacks\u2019 as tools to suppress China,\u201d Lin said.<\/p>\n

Lin urged the US to stop politicizing cybersecurity issues and cease slandering and smearing China.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BEIJING, China, Apr 16 \u2014 Claims by United States politicians, intelligence community and companies that the \u201cVolt Typhoon\u201d hacking organization is \u201cChinese state-sponsored\u201d are an attempt to hype the \u201cChina threat theory\u201d and deceitfully obtain funding from the US Congress and taxpayers, according to a report from China\u2019s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center. On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}