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China’s digital intrusions are even worse than its on-the-ground espionage (which is already bad) or its aerial surveillance. And year after year, we’ve gone on doing nothing meaningful about the situation.
At some point, we may come to regret that.
We had plenty of warnings before 9/11 that a terrorist attack could happen. We’ve had plenty of warning about what China could do in the event of a heightened conflict. Here’s another one.
China-backed hackers have had access to some major U.S. critical infrastructure for “at least five years,” according to an intelligence advisory released Wednesday…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation released an advisory Wednesday to warn critical infrastructure operators about China’s ongoing hacking interests.
According to the advisory, China-backed hacking group Volt Typhoon has been exploiting vulnerabilities in routers, firewalls and VPNs to target water, transportation, energy and communications systems across the country.
The group has relied heavily on stolen administrator credentials to maintain access to the systems — and in some cases it has maintained access for “at least five years,” per the advisory…
Last May, Microsoft and the U.S. government warned that Volt Typhoon had been positioning itself to launch attacks on infrastructure across the country, including water utilities and ports.
So far the Biden administration’s plan has been to ask China to stop. And if not we might impose meaningless sanctions on some figures who aren’t within reach of them anyway.
It’s always been my belief that if critical infrastructure and/or the power grid goes dark, it won’t be because of load limits or maintenance and repair issues. We should’ve been insulated and isolated decades ago so, in many ways, it’s on us now.
Correct Navy/ Didn’t Joe Biden promise to fix this. Oh that’s right, there was that Infrastructure Bill. That didn’t do much, did it.
So, China hacking targets:
“water, transportation, energy and communications systems across the country”
In other words, civilian necessities, as well as military.
I sure hope the US has countered with the same to China. Oddly, we need a quid pro quo in response to this.
Well, you see, there is a difference between China and us. They are serious and we no longer are. Too busy indoctrinating our kids in the finer points of queer theory, critical race theory, settler colonialism, whiteness studies, etc. to be concerned with being turned inside out by an aggressive foreign power.
The CCP wants US land, and everything that belong to the American people. There are thousands of Chinese and young military men from the Middle East coming in through our borders, and they have been allowed and encouraged to come. Well, now you know that the pagans are at the gates.
“At the gates??????” They’re INSIDE the gates and living in the armory. The Chinese have had access to our infrastructure for the past 20 years. The Chinese will be happy to take possession of our West Coast. In like manner, the Russians will be satisfied when they can take Alaska back. And Joe will give it to them.
Now we know why they are bringing in millions of people who are coming from places where there is no infrastructure.
There is NO reason for public utility SCADA systems to be connected to the internet.