In the wake of the release of the note, which listed the IP addresses and user numbers of the computers that were attacked, the legislature's cyber security personnel have since July 4 been trying to fix the virus problem.
"We have fixed 15 of the 24 affected computers and quarantined a virus in the other nine computers. Now we are waiting for Philippines-based Trend Micro [Corp] to get back to us on solutions for the various viruses on those nine computers," the director said.
Denial
The Information and Technology Department, however, denied that PLA was the source of the hackers and said the MJIB had first discovered the virus.
"According to Trend Micro's description of the virus, named BKDR_BIFROSE_JH, it was a backdoor-attached virus, but it was not from the PLA," Chen Shi-yang said.
The virus was found by the department's Security Operation Center and not by the MJIB, Chen Shi-yang added.
"Indeed, there's a threat that the PLA's hackers might attack the legislature's network system, but we have done our best to secure it against hackers," the director said.
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