Chinese Official Report Claims Harbin Asian Winter Games Information Systems Faced Massive Intrusion Attempts

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The report stated that the attacks did not cause severe impacts on the games; this entry does not treat source IP locations directly as attacker nationality or confirmed state attribution ^[1].

Source excerpt: "A comprehensive analysis of overseas attacks against the Asian Winter Games event information systems and critical information infrastructure in Heilongjiang Province showed that attacks originating from countries and regions such as the United States and the Netherlands were relatively concentrated. Moreover, notably, in January 2025, an investigation report publicly disclosed by China's National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center (CNCERT/CC) regarding cyberattacks by U.S. intelligence agencies against major Chinese technology enterprises explicitly pointed out that the United States frequently uses cloud hosts located in European countries such as the Netherlands and Germany as jump servers or bot hosts to launch attacks. In response, the cybersecurity protection team conducted detailed traceback analysis of the attack sources, and based on behavioral characteristics including techniques, tools, timing, and language, strongly suspected that the cyberattacks against event information systems and Heilongjiang critical information infrastructure during the Asian Winter Games were backed by the U.S. government." ^[1].