(Manila Comprehensive News) The Philippine government pointed out that a "acting in China" hackers have launched a series of cyber attacks on the official website of the Philippines for the past few weeks, but they have been frustrated by the Philippines.
The Deputy Minister of the Philippine Information and Communication Technology Deputy Minister Jeffrey Di Di issued a statement on Saturday (February 3) saying that hackers have tried to attack the Filipino Overseas Workers 'Welfare Bureau Website in recent weeks, and President President President Magos' private website alsoBecome the target of attack, but these attacks have been frustrated.
In addition, the Philippines officially detected some "spy software or spy activities" to try to log in to the government emails connected to the Philippine Central Government, Coast Guard and Information and Communications Technology Department.
Jeffrey Di described these network attacks that "the secret of action is a continuous threat of high -end".He disclosed that the official tracking of the IP address of the hacker came from China Unicom, but it was impossible to confirm whether the Chinese government was related to hackers' attack attempts.
Hackers may collect information for long -term collection
Jeffrey Di said that hackers are specifically for government departments' email network domain (Gov.ph) administrator."They are looking for a person to log in as an administrator. They are selective. When they find a administrator, they will get information from this person. Their goal may be to collect information for a long time and mature the time at the time.Start at "
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference on Monday (5th): "China has always resolutely combat various forms of network attacks in accordance with the law, and advocates that countries through dialogue and cooperation to jointly maintain the Internet to jointly maintain the InternetSafe. "
According to the Philippine Star report, the Philippine Parliament House of Representatives requested the Information and Communication Technology Department on Monday, and immediately reported on the network security issues of Chinese hackers invading government websites.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Romu Asdes, said: "Suspean hackers from China have penetrated the email systems and internal websites of multiple government agencies, which are related to national security and public interests."
Roomaldis pointed out that a hearing should be held to focus on the nature and degree of network attacks, measures taken by the government to prevent network attacks, and the strategy of strengthening government network security infrastructure.
The Philippine Coast Guard spokesman Barrilo acknowledged in an interview with the Philippine Star report that the official website of the Coast Guard was indeed hit by hackers. He did not rule out that these attacks were related to the sovereign disputes of the South China Sea.
Barillo said: "We cannot confirm whether these attacks are related to the Western Philippines Sea issue, but this possibility is not ruled out. However, it is possible that this attack is done by ordinary hackers."
According to data from Surfshark, the Philippines' network security vulnerabilities have become very common. In the third quarter of last year, more than 60,000 user accounts were invaded, which made the Philippines the world's 30 most serious attacks in the world.One of the countries.
The Chief of Staff of the Philippine Armed Forces, Blauna, said last October that the military would recruit online soldiers and set up network commands to fight against the network attacks almost every day.
