Cyberstorm rising: China’s aggressive hacking on Taiwan’s infrastructure doubled in 2024

China ramped up its cyberwarfare in 2024, targeting Taiwan with 2.4 million attacks per day – twice as many as last year.

In 2024, China increased its cyberattacks on Taiwan to more than 2.4 million attacks per day, aimed at institutional infrastructure such as government agencies, telecommunication firms, and transport companies.

This data comes from an annual report from Taiwan’s National Security Bureau. The report mentions diverse hacking techniques, military observations, cyber ambushes, and data theft from Taiwanese government systems through hacking operations.

This is double the number of attacks compared to the 1.2 million in 2023 and shows how far they are ramping things up.

China has become increasingly aggressive globally with its cyberattacks, namely in wiretapping US intelligence, breaking into the systems of governments in the Middle East, South East Asia, and Africa, and deploying an elaborate SMS phishing scam targeting individuals in India.

The pace of these attacks is tipped to gain ground in 2025, and the telecommunications industry, in particular, is a prime target. By compromising this sector, hackers can penetrate political communications, dig up information and secrets, and potentially blackmail key figures.

Chinese cybercrime is becoming more robust and dominant. As we previously covered, China and the US are going to blows in cyber warfare as Chinese hackers become increasingly sophisticated and dangerous.

Operating generally in the area are the ominous pig butchering groups – fraudsters who cheat victims into fraudulent schemes. It’s astonishing that individuals, sometimes portrayed as good citizens for helping build schools and nursing homes, then let loose and wreak havoc on people’s lives.

With all the mainstream talk of TikTok bans, it's the units operating beneath the radar that may represent the key underbelly in world geopolitics, specifically trade wars, with Trump poised to increase tariffs – and how China continues to bombard Taiwan with digital aggression.