A man walks past a monitor showing stock curves outside the Taiwan Stock Exchange in Taipei on May 12, 2021.
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Pro-Russian hackers reportedly crashed the Taiwan Stock Exchange website on Thursday, local media reported.
3pm Taiwan time, stock exchange stated On its network, “a large number of foreign IPs initiated invalid queries,” resulting in “unstable service within a short period of time.”
At 3:22 pm local time, the network returned to normal. The exchange added that the securities market and related businesses “are operating normally and have not been affected in any way.” Taiwan markets closed at 1:30 pm local time.
While the exchange did not specify the cause of the attack or the attacker, local media reports This was part of a decentralized denial of service (DDoS) attack launched by a pro-Russian hacker group against the Taiwanese government.
The attack reportedly targeted Taiwanese government and financial entities, including the airport and tax bureau.
Taipei Times report Security company Radware said the attack was in retaliation for comments made by Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te.
September 1, Lai said in the interview China’s claim to Taiwan is an attempt to change the rules-based international order and achieve hegemony in the Western Pacific, not a territorial claim.
China regards Taiwan as part of its territory and has not given up the use of force against Taiwan.
“It wants to achieve hegemony in the international region, in the Western Pacific – that’s its real goal,” Lai said.
“If it really involves territorial integrity, why don’t they take back the land that was signed and occupied by Russia in the Treaty of Aihun?” Lai said.
He added, “Russia is at its weakest now. Treaty of Aihun (land), you (China) could have asked for its return, but you didn’t.”
The 1858 Treaty of Aihun was a treaty signed between the Qing Dynasty, the last dynasty of China, and the Russian Empire, which ceded approximately 600,000 square kilometers of land in Manchuria to Russia.
The Qing Dynasty initially refused to ratify the treaty, but its termination was later confirmed in the 1860 Convention of Peking, which China considered one of many “unequal treaties”.
In 1895, Taiwan was also ceded to Japan through another “unequal treaty” (the Treaty of Shimonoseki), and then placed under the control of the then Republic of China (Taiwan’s official name) in 1945 after World War II. Down.
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