Chinese cyberattacks on Taiwan infrastructure averaged 2.6 million a day in 2025, report says
Defence affairs - Reuters - Def-Geopolitics Chinese cyberattacks on Taiwan's key infrastructure from hospitals to banks rose 6% in 2025 from the previous year to an average of 2.63 million attacks a day, the island's National Security Bureau said, adding some were synchronised with military drills in "hybrid threats" to paralyse the island. Taiwan has in recent years complained about what it sees as China's "hybrid warfare" - from daily military drills near the island to disinformation campaigns and cyberattacks - as Beijing ramps up military and political pressure on the democratically governed island to force Taipei to accept its claims of sovereignty. The average number of daily attacks in 2025 jumped 113% from 2023 when the bureau first began publishing such data, with sectors such as energy, emergency rescue and hospitals seeing the sharpest year‑on‑year increases, according to a report by the National Security Bureau on Sunday. "Su...
