By Junex Doronio
MANILA — Believe it or not China has expressed willingness to help the Philippines in addressing the recent attempted cyberattack on the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration’s (OWWA) website.
This was revealed on Thursday (February 8) by Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Ivan Uy who said the “attackers” were traced to China Unicom, a leading contributor in the operation and service of digital information infrastructure and a pioneer in the integration and innovation of digital technologies.
“They have reached out to ask if we can do some cooperation. Dahil it’s both ways. Cooperation has to come, you know, as a mutual activity,” Uy said in a Malacañang press briefing.
Last Saturday, DICT Undersecretary Jeff Ian Dy revealed that they successfully thwarted the hacking attack on the OWWA’s website.
“In our investigation, the attacker, we were able to trace iyong kanilang tinatawag na ‘command and control’ operating from within China. So, we were able to detect that the attackers were coming from China Unicom. So, I think we will need to coordinate with them (investigation),” Dy said.
It was learned that China Unicom is one of China’s top three telecommunications companies.
China Unicom’s parent company, state-owned China United Network Communications Group, was established in 1994 and is supervised by the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.
(el Amigo/MNM)
