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China has targeted cybercrime in three new sets of regulations issued last month as the activity starts to look like an established industry in the country.
Cybercrime in China has grown such that attackers often divide the labour needed to design malware, distribute it and turn the resulting access to remote PCs into monetary gain, security analysts say.
Botnet afflict China more severely than other countries. Just two million computers worldwide in the first half of that year were bot-controlled, according to a survey by the MIIT's National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team.
One of China's new regulations calls on the country's state-run telecommunications operators, CNCERT and other government agencies to improve their abilities to monitor and eliminate botnets. China's domain registry center and other bodies are ordere to dispose of malicious domains and IP addresses