China Accuses NSA of Multi-Year Hack Targeting Its National Time Systems

China accuses US of yearslong cyberattack on national time service

China accuses U.S. of major cyberespionage campaign targeting national timekeeping system. Latest clash in ongoing cyber warfare between world's superpowers.

China accuses NSA of multi-year hack targeting its national time systems

“NSA does not confirm nor deny allegations in the media regarding its operations,” an NSA official told Nextgov/FCW.

China accuses US of cyber breaches at national time center

The national time center is a research institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences that generates, maintains and broadcasts China's standard time

China accuses US of yearslong cyberattack on national time service – Your Capital Minds

China’s spy agency accused the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) of hacking its national time service, alleging a yearslong cyberespionage campaign that targeted the system keeping official Beijing Time — a backbone for China’s telecommunications, finance and defense sectors. The Ministry of State Security claimed the NSA began the operation in 2022 by exploiting a text-messaging vulnerability to gain control of employee cell phones at the Nat…

What time is it? Accuracy of pool.ntp.org., (Tue, Oct 21st)

Yesterday, Chinese security services published a story alleging a multi-year attack against the systems operating the Chinese standard time (CST), sometimes called Beijing Standard Time. China uses only one time zone across the country, and has not used daylight saving time since 1991. Most operating systems use UTC internally and display local time zones for user convenience. Modern operating systems use NTP to synchronize time. Popular impleme…