China's cyber-threat groups are still intensifying their attacks on Taiwan, increasing cyber activity against the vital infrastructure of the self-governing island and appearing to carry out cyber operations during most of its joint military drills that target Taiwan This article explores taiwan increasing cyber. . According to a report released last week by the National Security Bureau, Taiwan saw an average of 2.63 million attacks per day in 2025, a 6% increase over the 2.46 million attacks per day that targeted critical infrastructure the year before.

The two biggest increases in cyberattacks in 2025 were a 10-fold increase in energy infrastructure and a 54% increase in emergency rescue and hospital systems.

According to the NSB, the growing attacks point to "a deliberate attempt by China to compromise Taiwan's CI comprehensively and to disrupt or paralyze Taiwanese government and social functions." "China's actions are in line with its strategic requirement to use hybrid threats against Taiwan in times of peace and conflict.The report is released at a time when China and Taiwan's relationship has experienced difficulties in the last 12 months. Only 4% of attacks targeted the supply chain, whereas more than half (57%) focused on software and hardware flaws.

The remaining attacks were split almost evenly between attempts at social engineering (18%) and denial-of-service attacks (21%). Related: Despite a decline in attacks, Africa continues to be the top global target ## Five Cyberthreat Groups Five Chinese organizations were named by Taiwan's National Security Bureau as the primary cyber adversaries.

While almost all of the organizations target government agencies and administration, BlackTech also concentrates on science parks and communications infrastructure. While Mustang Panda and APT41 target energy infrastructure, Flax Typhoon seems to be the primary group targeting hospitals.