China is accusing Taiwan's cyber warfare unit of being behind a hacker group that carried out cyberattacks against China. Taiwan says that's untrue, and accused China of cognitive warfare.
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00:00China's national security ministry is accusing Taiwan of carrying out cyber attacks against China Hong Kong and Macau
00:06It says a hacking group called anonymous 64 works for Taiwan's cyber warfare wing
00:12And it's opened a case against three of the ring's members now Louise what is following this story for us from Taipei?
00:19Louise what's Taiwan's response to this accusation?
00:23Well the unit that's being accused, that's the information communications and electronic force command under Taiwan's Ministry of Defense
00:31They've said in the past few hours that their role is to protect
00:35Cyber security in Taiwan and they say what China is alleging is simply not true
00:41Now what is China saying?
00:43Well, they're saying that since the beginning of the year a hacker group known as anonymous 64
00:49Has sought to put out content in China on TV stations on websites on outdoor screens
00:56that denigrates China's political system and its policies and they've also
01:03Posted photos and the names of two men and one woman who they say are active-duty
01:10Military personnel involved in this now despite what China says it's unclear whether or not this is true
01:18Despite what China says it's unclear who is behind anonymous 64 or where it's based on
01:25X the social media platform
01:27There is an account under its name that says it's done several posts saying that it successfully
01:33Carried out a series of cyber attacks in a China on for example
01:39University and media websites now those cyber attacks supposedly mentioned Tibet
01:46Some of them likened Chinese President Xi Jinping to an emperor these are sensitive topics in China and
01:54These allegations come amid tense relations between China and Taiwan
02:00Just recently China and put out some guidelines that said that
02:07convicted diehard Taiwan separatists could face death and
02:13Analysts here in Taiwan see these latest allegations as more Chinese pressure on
02:18Taiwan and let's not forget that Taiwan itself is one of the biggest targets of cyber attacks
02:24Worldwide and the cyber warfare unit today
02:28It said that it's China that's working to disrupt Taiwan through cyber attacks