China accuses Taiwan of running five feeble APT gangs, with US help

China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center on Thursday published a report in which it claims Taiwan targeted it with a years-long cyber offensive, backed by the USA, but which was so feeble Beijing compared it to an ant trying to shake a tree.

In a report [PDF] titled “Operation Futile: Investigation report on Cyberattacks launched by ICEFCOM of Taiwan and its affiliated [advanced persistent threat] APT actors”.

“ICEFOM” is the acronym for Taiwan’s Information, Communications and Electronic Force Command, which the contested territory created in 2017. The report claims that Taiwan established ICEFCOM after the USA helped Taiwan’s pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ahead of the 2016 election in which it captured an outright majority for the first t Beijing’s thesis is that Taiwan’s people quietly yearn to re-unite with the mainland and that only US campaigns promoting independence for Taiwan could have created an environment in which the DPP won the 2016 election.

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