China recently tightened its cybersecurity rules, requiring ‘critical information infrastructure’ to undergo a more rigorous review process. — SCMP
The total amount of computer malware attacks captured by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team was over 62 million in 2019, and around 53.5% of foreign attacks were from the US, lower than a year before when there were in excess of 100 million incidents, the Team said. The number of new malicious attacks directed against mobile networks was nearly 2.8 million in 2019, 1.4% lower than a year earlier, the first decline in such attacks in five years, according to CNCERT.
Cybersecurity is currently rising up the international agenda amid escalating tech and trade tensions between the US and China.