‘Western Countries Abusing Tech Advantages for Eavesdropping’: Chinese Embassies Slam EU, NATO

The European Union on 19 July had claimed that malicious cyber activities undertaken in China have compromised the security of “thousands of computers and networks worldwide”. An unusually broad coalition of countries slammed China for “global espionage” , a charge that Beijing vehemently refuted.

Chinese embassies across the European Union have launched a scathing attack on Western countries as well as the US-led military alliance NATO on Tuesday for “making groundless accusations” that China had indulged in malicious cyber activities against them to “undermine the integrity of cyberspace worldwide”.

The Chinese Mission in the EU said that the statements of EU and NATO “were not based on facts but speculation and groundless accusations”.

The Chinese Mission also highlighted the extent of cyber attacks that China has suffered on its entities. The annual report by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Centre of China revealed that last year a staggering 5.31 million hosts on the Chinese mainland were controlled by a total of about 52,000 overseas servers.

Our spokesperson’s response to the statements from the EU & NATO on the so-called Chinese malicious cyber activities: the allegations in the statements by the EU & NATO are not based on facts and evidence, but speculation and groundless accusations.
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— Mission of China (@ChinaEUMission) July 19, 2021
​”The top three origins of overseas servers in terms of the number of compromised Chinese hosts are all from NATO member states. This has severely harmed China’s national security, economic and social development and people’s lives,” the Mission said. 

Earlier on Monday, NATO had accused China of endangering Euro-Atlantic security via hostile cyber activities.

Sourse: sputniknews.com