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This Site Shows Who Is Hacking Whom Right Now — And
The US
Is Getting Hammered
By Jeremy Bender
U.S.-based computer security firm Norse has released a real-time animated
map that illustrates ongoing cyberattacks around the world. Without a doubt,
the
U.S.
is getting constantly hammered by hackers.
In just 45 minutes, the
U.S.
was the victim of 5,840 cyberattacks.
[Click on this link for real time attacks]
A view of the cyberattacks carried out against the U.S. within a
45-minute span. Within that span of time, the U.S.
suffered from 27 times more cyberattacks than Thailand, the second most targeted
country. Thailand
was the target of only 220 cyber attacks during these 45 minutes.
The Norse map does not represent all hacking attempts in the world. Instead,
according to Smithsonian Magazine, the map relies on a Norse honeypot network —
a network purposefully designed to detect hacking — to provide a representative
snapshot of global hacking attempts.
In actuality, there are orders of magnitude more hacking attempts on any
given day than recorded by Norse. For instance, there are an estimated 20
million attacks per day against locations within
Utah. There are 10 million daily
hacking attempts against the Pentagon alone.
China
is responsible for the vast majority of these attacks. Within the 45-minute
span,
China
accounted for 2,513 attacks. The
U.S.
accounted for the second highest number of attacks, with 1,550 attacks
originating within
America.
However, a number of American attacks targeted computers elsewhere in the
United States.
It is likely that these intra-U.S. attacks are the result of "zombie
computers" — computers that have
been compromised by a hacker and carry out attacks at the hacker's
discretion.
Chinese cyber attacks are highly damaging to both the
U.S. economy
and national security.
China
is currently developing a new plane that is modeled after stolen plans for the
U.S. F-35 fifth-generation plane.
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