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Hacktivism: Russia vs. China #shorts

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Does China have hacktivist groups like Russia? Observing short-lived DDoS attacks, especially after Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan visit. But unlike pro-Russian groups, they remain silent. #bsidesfrankfurt #bsides #bsidesfra #AlixiaRutayisire #QuoIntelligence #Hacktivism
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activist group. Uh in the case of Russia, they do we see that they do use it. Uh in China, it's pretty unclear. Uh so we have we kind of observe some uh activity that could be activist activism. Um like for instance when uh the US House Speaker Nancy uh Nancy Pelosi went to Taiwan there were lots of DDS attacks um in reaction of uh uh these uh visit but it's something really uh short-lived and also uh those group if they exist they are not really vocal so we they're not like the pro-Russia one uh have they have their telegram channels where for each action they do they claim it and they make tons of it.

It's not the case for China. So it's really hard to um know if there is any activist group and if they actually uh work with the