Security News > 2022 > March > China: attacks from US IP addresses hit us, moved on to Russia and Ukraine

China's Cyberspace Administration has claimed that "Since late February" it has observed continuous attacks on the Chinese internet and local computers by actors who used the resources they co-opted to target Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.

The allegation, the title of which translates as "My country's internet suffers from overseas cyber attacks," was posted last Friday and include a list of IP addresses that the Administration claims as the source or target of the attacks.

"After analysis, these attack addresses are mainly from the United States. There are more than ten attack addresses from New York State alone, and the peak attack traffic reaches 36Gbit/sec," the CAC asserts.

"87 per cent of the attack targets are Russia, and a small number of attack addresses are from Germany, the Netherlands and other countries."

The reference to peak attack traffic of 36Gbit/sec may be revealing, as that's the kind of language used when discussing the volume of rubbish traffic spewed at a target during a distributed denial of service attack.

In October 2021 Microsoft claimed it fended off a 2.4Tbit/sec attack and Cloudflare spotted a couple that topped 1Tbit/sec during 2021.

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