'Hackers using China's novices'
Report shows global criminals are hiding behind mainland’s PC users, experts say
China will probably retain its position as the world's biggest source of cyberattacks for quite a while, given the large number of internet users in the country.
According to the "State of the Internet" report for the third quarter of 2012, which was released by Akamai on Wednesday, a third of all computer attacks came from China.
This was a dramatic increase over the previous quarter when only 16 per cent of cyberattacks originated from China.
The figures prove that China has become one of the most popular bases for global hackers to hide, say Chinese programmers.
The average Chinese internet user lacks the knowledge to fully protect their computers and the hackers use their machines to launch attacks, they said.
