Chinese hackers and telecoms giant Huawei allegedly helping Vladimir Putin’s efforts to stabilise Russia’s internet network after cyber attacks

Autorius: Lazarus APT Šaltinis: https://zambianobserver.com/ch... 2022-03-09 15:38:00, skaitė 381, komentavo 1

Huawei, the Chinese telecoms behemoth, has triggered calls for an investigation amid allegations that the company came to Russia’s rescue following cyber-attacks on its internet network. According to reports in China, the IT giant, which has numerous locations in the UK, has been assisting Vladimir Putin in his efforts to stabilize Russia’s internet network after it was targeted by hacker groups all over the world. Since the invasion of Ukraine, Russian government and media websites have been repeatedly disrupted by suspected cyber attacks by organisations attacking the country. Last week, a group claiming to be part of the Anonymous hacking network attacked Russian media sites and replaced pages with a ‘tombstone’ in honor of the war dead. Huawei, which reportedly has five research centres in Russia, is said to have ‘rushed to Russia’s aid’ to support its internet network in the face of the attacks. A report, which appeared on a Chinese news site but was later deleted, claimed that Huawei would use its research centres to train ‘50,000 technical experts in Russia’. It added that the firm expects to expand ‘to cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and face recognition’. Conservative MP Iain Duncan-Smith, who raised the issue in the House of Commons last Thursday, said: ‘I am deeply concerned that a company seen by the UK government as such a national security threat that they were unable to allow their equipment to stay in Britain’s new 5G system are still here in the UK. ‘It is very likely now they have been busy helping this despotic regime in Russia. ‘There should be a full investigation now because if we’re sanctioning oligarchs who have been helping Putin we should be looking at companies that have been helping Putin as well. ‘If Russia thought for one moment China would break rank they wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine.’ Chinese companies are in fear of secondary sanctions from the US if they are found to be helping Russian companies evade the measures. Huawei has been badly hit by US sanctions, introduced in 2019 over national security fears, and has been banned from providing equipment for the UK’s 5G network.

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