The Belgian media reported that the Belgian Trade Delegation, which visited Beijing and Shanghai from November 17 to 22, experienced severe cyberattacks that were as high as 135 times per hour, while visiting Beijing. The delegation was led by Princess Astrid, Defense Minister Didier Reynders, and Minister for Security and the Interior Pieter De Crem. According to the reports Geert Baudewijns, a Belgium network security expert who was a member of the delegation, found it suspicious that he saw mobile devices outside their hotel in Beijing and all of their network traffic had to go through some specific network system. He brought a few laptops to China. Using special monitoring tools, he found his laptops were hacked into fairly often. Cyberattacks against his computer were as high as 135 times every hour. He said it was hard to pinpoint the attacker, but from the IP address, Baudewijns felt it might be related to China’s National Security office.
|
