A mysterious electronic attack that confuses the Taiwan scholarship and its main bank

Financial platforms in Taiwan, including the stock exchange and the main bank “Mega Financial Holding Co”, were subjected to an electronic attack on Thursday, which led to a temporary disorder on its websites. The local media described the attack as who did foreign elements. According to the Ministry of Digital Affairs, the websites were targeted by the SO calls “Distributed Denial of Service”, which, according to the Ministry of Digital Affairs, caused unstable communication problems for financial platforms. The Taiwan Stock Exchange has announced that the attack shows a significant increase in the number of information about the Internet protocol titles from abroad, in a way that exceeds the usual levels, according to a separate SMS I sent to “Bloomberg News”. The ministry did not comment on the source of the attack, while a local media, ‘Liberty Times’, said that a Russian group accepted responsibility on the ‘telegram’ platform based on an analysis of the researchers of the “Radwir” business. The next day, government sites and trade operations worked normally. The “distributed attacks to block service” aims to disrupt the systems instead of stealing sensitive information, and the stock exchange regained its natural operations on Thursday, but the incident showed the possible security gaps of computer platforms in Taiwan, which are the largest producer in the world for advanced slides. “We have confirmed that the unstable communication problems that some websites saw yesterday afternoon are caused by” the attacks distributed to block the service. “The ministry intends to continue to monitor the situation and help agencies improve protection and response measures.” Radwir did not respond to the comments requests that e -mail or phone call received to his office in Taipei. The recent events come in light of the escalation of electronic attacks on Taiwan over the past year, due to its increasing strategic importance. In August, researchers from Cisco Systems reported that a collection of Chinese piracy of government stole passwords and documents from a government research center that specializes in computerism. This attack highlighted the cyber threats Taiwan faced, which is an important tension point between the United States and China, as Beijing claims that the island is part of his area and warns that it will control it.