11 Apr How China Is Hacking America
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine
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Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 11, 2024
The sheer scale of China’s latest attempt to infiltrate U.S. infrastructure has surprised the entire cybersecurity industry, an expert has said.
Daniel Cuthbert, who sat on the UK Government Cyber Security Advisory Board, said the Volt Typhoon hacking system is bigger than anything China has unleashed before.
The U.S. government says Volt Typhoon is designed to cripple U.S. computer systems if America and China go to war.
FBI Director Christopher Wray told a U.S. committee hearing on Jan. 31 that Volt Typhoon was “the defining threat of our generation.”
It has already been used in attempted hacking on emergency services, military installations and satellites.
Steve Morgan, founder of Cybersecurity Ventures, told Newsweek that the consequences of Volt Typhoon “could have been catastrophic.”
“Hostile actors from our most formidable adversary have been lurking undetected in critical U.S. infrastructure for years. Fortunately, the FBI, NSA, and CISA have intervened with enough time to alert and advise our critical infrastructure and avoid one of our worst nightmares.”
“China is on a decades-long mission to infiltrate and harm U.S. citizens, businesses, organizations of all types, governments and political parties.”
“The hacking has amped up each and every year and there is no end in sight,” he said.
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