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U.S. Officials: Chinese Hackers Are Planning to Take Down Power Grid
Disswire.com ^ | 12 February 2024 | Bradley Greer

Posted on 02/13/2024 4:13:35 AM PST by Sam77

The looming threat of a major cyber attack against the U.S. is becoming more likely after the FBI admitted that Chinese hackers are planning an all-out assault on the country’s power grid and infrastructure.

A cyber attack against the United States would not just be devastating for Americans; it would also allow China to take advantage of the ensuing chaos, especially with it being an election year.

According to U.S. officials, they have already foiled a state-backed Chinese effort to plant malware to damage civilian infrastructure.

(Excerpt) Read more at disswire.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2024election; china; cyberattack; cybersecurity; hack; hackers; malware; prc
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1 posted on 02/13/2024 4:13:35 AM PST by Sam77
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To: Sam77

A variation on “Russia Russia Russia”.

China isn’t going to start a war with us. China isn’t going to interfere with our election.

Our government thinks we are stupid. They control us through fear.


2 posted on 02/13/2024 4:15:37 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Sam77

Biden’s plan is working out just fine.


3 posted on 02/13/2024 4:16:20 AM PST by spincaster
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To: Sam77
I'm sure FJB won't mind...


4 posted on 02/13/2024 4:17:17 AM PST by COBOL2Java ("Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." - Kahlil Gibran)
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To: Sam77

Partially true.

“Foiled an attempt...”

No, thousands of attempts and probes every day. That’s the nature of cybersecurity.


5 posted on 02/13/2024 4:17:30 AM PST by Blueflag
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To: Sam77

especially with it being an election year. here is your deliberately co planned event


6 posted on 02/13/2024 4:20:06 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Sam77; CodeToad

bttt


7 posted on 02/13/2024 4:20:17 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Sam77
US Department of Energy reverses Trump ban on Chinese electrical equipment

The US Department of Energy has reversed former President Trump’s ban on the import of certain electrical equipment from China.

The announcement comes as part of a push to increase electrical grid security. China is one of the world’s major manufacturers of electrical grid equipment, and energy regulators cite the need to modernize equipment as part of the reason why the ban was reversed.

8 posted on 02/13/2024 4:20:49 AM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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“U.S. Officials: Chinese Hackers Are Planning to Take Down Power Grid”

I guess the invasion by tens of thousands of military age Chinese men is plan B if hacking doesn’t work.


9 posted on 02/13/2024 4:21:45 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Sam77

Simple: just give away lots of EVs and overwhelm the grid.


10 posted on 02/13/2024 4:22:26 AM PST by Leep (Kill ALL Fakestinians!)
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To: Sam77

The ensuing chaos of hundreds of thousands of Millennials being unable to order Doordash and millions of people unable to warch pimple popping on TikTok.


11 posted on 02/13/2024 4:24:55 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Yes. Susan Rice.


12 posted on 02/13/2024 4:29:37 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: ClearCase_guy

Why? Is the Patriot Front busy?

#FalseFlag


13 posted on 02/13/2024 4:29:44 AM PST by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind bweek.lows too much)
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To: Sam77

1st avenue: Windows OS users clicking on links in e-mail messages.

2nd avenue: Using the same username at 2 or more websites.

3rd avenue: Using the same password at 2 or more websites.

Because Internet users want convenience and “security is ‘too much work.’”


14 posted on 02/13/2024 4:29:55 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Sam77

Only way to prevent this is to hand the government complete hands on control of our personal power usage.

For our own protection of course. Who is going to protect us from our protectors?


15 posted on 02/13/2024 4:30:42 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: marktwain

bttt


16 posted on 02/13/2024 4:31:06 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Sam77

We have a chink in our armor, and therefore thousands of Chinese had guys are coming across the border feat to dodo bad things.


17 posted on 02/13/2024 4:31:24 AM PST by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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To: COBOL2Java

ROFLMAO!

You ain't lying.

18 posted on 02/13/2024 4:32:23 AM PST by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business)
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To: Sam77

Sheriff alert - Butler County, Ohio

https://twitter.com/FiveTimesAugust/status/1756757668507615665


19 posted on 02/13/2024 4:32:55 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Sam77

If they did that, who would buy all the crap they make?
Would they shoot themselves in the foot like that?
Perhaps they feel the BRICS will hold them up. I don’t see it.


20 posted on 02/13/2024 4:40:44 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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