Most UAE hacking attacks from Chinese servers - The National Newspaper

Most UAE hacking attacks from Chinese servers - The National Newspaper

ABU DHABI // More than 70 per cent of the hundreds of hacking attacks that target UAE computers every month come through Chinese servers, according to the national body responsible for combating cybercrime.

Computer security experts from the Computer Emergency Response Team, or aeCert, said another 14 per cent of hacking, phishing and other internet attacks originated in Iran and 14 per cent from North Korea, with just two per cent coming from elsewhere in the world.

“Most of the attacks we are seeing in the UAE are either phishing, where people are tricked into putting their bank or credit card details into fraudulent websites, or hackers defacing websites,” said Fatma Bazargan, the research and analysis manager for aeCert. “Most attacks are aimed at private individuals and a lot of people have lost out financially because of phishing scams.”