China is 'world's main hacking target'

2010-02-03

China is the world's top target for hackers, according to a government official in the country.

Talking to state media, Zhou Yonglin, deputy chief of the operations department of the China National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team (CNCERT), said that in comparison to the US, Japan and the Republic of Korea, the situation is "very serious in China".

He claimed that in 2009, 262,000 IP addresses in the Asian country were hit by Trojans planted by nearly 165,000 overseas IP addresses.

Zhou also rejected Google's allegation that hackers traced to China had attacked the search engine company's servers, saying that CNCERT has not been presented with any evidence about the attacks.

"We have been hoping that Google will contact us so that we could have details on this issue and provide them help if necessary," he added.

In recent news, Google announced that it is to offer financial rewards for those who provide information about bugs in their Chrome browser.

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