China hit by cyber-attacks

NEARLY 500,000 cyber-attacks were aimed at computers in China last year and almost half originated overseas, the government said, following recent suggestions Beijing might be behind long-term security attacks internationally.

The vast majority of the attacks, a Chinese monitoring agency reported, were in the form of Trojan horse malware that installs on computers, allowing them to monitor usage and access personal information.

Of those Trojan horse attacks, 14.7% of those were traced to IP addresses in the US and 8% in India.