Urgent warnings have been circulated throughout Nato and the European Union for secret intelligence material to be protected from a recent surge in cyberwar attacks originating in China.

The attacks have also hit government and military institutions in the United States, where analysts said that the West had no effective response and that EU systems were especially vulnerable because most cyber security efforts were left to member states.

Nato diplomatic sources told The Times: “Everyone has been made aware that the Chinese have become very active with cyber-attacks and we’re now getting regular warnings from the office for internal security.” The sources said that the number of attacks had increased significantly over the past 12 months, with China among the most active players.

In the US, an official report released on Friday said the number of attacks on Congress and other government agencies had risen exponentially in the past year to an estimated 1.6 billion every month.

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1. Sick & Tired of Nuance wrote: Ok, we need to just shut down all the routers into and out of China.  Anything with an IP address from China should be quarantined. The world does not need this instability right now.  This is an hostile and aggressive act by China and it needs to be put down hard and fast.  If that becomes a problem, then trade should stop going to them as well.  If the US and Europe stopped trading with China, their economy would collapse.  I don’t think they want to go there. March 9, 11:36 pm | [comment link]

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