EDITORIAL: Being experts amid cyberthreatsCyberattacks originating in China that targeted Taiwan’s critical energy infrastructure increased 10-fold last year, the National Security Bureau said on Sunday last week, underscoring the growing cyberthreat facing the nation’s essential services. It identified four primary tactics: exploitation of hardware and software vulnerabilities, distributed denial-of-service attacks, social engineering and supply chain infiltration. Addressing hardware and software vulnerabilities is more challenging. Modern medical equipment requires regular software updates and can be compromised regardless of how updates are delivered. While cyberthreats continue to escalate, defensive technologies are advancing in parallel and public awareness of malicious activity is improving.

Source: Taipei Times January 10, 2026 16:10 UTC