Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Chinese Hackers Position Themselves In US Infrastructure Ahead Of Potential Conflict
https://capitalhillnews.com ^ | 11/30/2024 | staff

Posted on 11/30/2024 8:00:32 PM PST by bitt

A senior U.S. cybersecurity official has revealed that Chinese hackers are strategically positioning themselves within the United States’ critical infrastructure networks, potentially preparing for a future conflict with the U.S. Morgan Adamski, executive director of U.S. Cyber Command, stated that ongoing cyber operations linked to China are designed to give Beijing an advantage if tensions between the two nations escalate.

Speaking at the Cyberwarcon security conference in Arlington, Virginia, Adamski explained that Chinese cyber activities have targeted key systems, including those related to energy, water, and communications.

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1860089868182867989?

https://x.com/ReutersWorld/status/1860028012458061948?

These efforts are part of a broader strategy to prepare for possible disruptions in the event of a military conflict. By infiltrating critical infrastructure, Chinese-linked hackers are positioning themselves to manipulate essential services, such as HVAC systems in server rooms or even power and water controls, if needed.

https://x.com/FrankLuntz/status/1860162137454514426

The announcement comes as the U.S. government grapples with increasing concerns over cyberattacks from China. A recent breach, known as “Salt Typhoon,” has been described as the worst telecom hack in U.S. history. The cyber espionage operation resulted in stolen telecommunications data, including sensitive call records and compromised communications from top officials in both major U.S. presidential campaigns.

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


TOPICS: China; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ccp; chicoms; china; chinesehackers; espionage; hackers; morganadamski; usinfrastructure; wokeprogrammers
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-30 next last

1 posted on 11/30/2024 8:00:32 PM PST by bitt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

P


2 posted on 11/30/2024 8:00:47 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bitt

The infrastructural cyber-attacks that most concern me would be those perpetrated from within our Federal “intelligence” agencies.


3 posted on 11/30/2024 8:06:26 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bitt

It probably would have been helpful if we prohibited acess of CHINESE NATIONAL to our critical infrastructure and didn’t use CHINESE Hardware and Software.

But instead it’s all UKRAINE, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, TRUMP, RUSSIA, GEORGIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE...


4 posted on 11/30/2024 8:36:16 PM PST by BobL
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bitt

Two can play this game.

China might want to be peaceful and trade with us rather than being belligerent.


5 posted on 11/30/2024 8:36:54 PM PST by packagingguy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bitt

That explains who the military-aged Chinese males are who are coming across the border.


6 posted on 11/30/2024 8:46:43 PM PST by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: packagingguy
Two can play this game.

And surely would.

I don't like our chances in that exchange, as our distribution and infrastructure are much more over-extended. Food stores are nil compared to what they once were. Water and sewage are far more mechanized. And most bureaucracies are run by idiots.

7 posted on 11/30/2024 8:47:20 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: bitt

Just kill the bastards.

Quit playing games.

Let the handlers, enablers, and financiers know that THEY are the targets.
Then kill thim.
This is war.


8 posted on 11/30/2024 8:59:49 PM PST by dadgum (Trump 2024)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Old Yeller
> That explains who the military-aged Chinese males are who are coming across the border.

You mean the ones legally here on student and H1-B visas ?

9 posted on 11/30/2024 9:28:46 PM PST by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: bitt

The biden.obama.democrats, hav set this country up for attack from within,..
And what has been done looks like treason. To open the gate to anyone .. our country was set up with laws, order, apt leaders who were to protect we the people, from invasion.. and we have been invaded for 4 years..
The one question I have.. congress could have stopped the rats from selling this country.. they let it happen. It took an election..and a man who will close the gates..send them back.. and fire.retire the global Dems for all they did.


10 posted on 11/30/2024 9:34:17 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BobL

“It probably would have been helpful if we prohibited acess of CHINESE NATIONAL to our critical infrastructure and didn’t use CHINESE Hardware and Software.”

I stumbled onto two of them. Both Chinese Nationals with advanced degrees. One an MD, and the other a computer engineer working for a government contractor in Washington DC.

As soon as they suspected I knew by the questions I asked, they distanced from me quickly. Their home was over prepared for a disaster, including generator backup. Something didn’t fit and they became very uncomfortable.


11 posted on 11/30/2024 9:41:27 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: bitt
China has infiltrated and purchased much of the US general aviation industry, the US Military commissioning committees feature a chinese spy or two, then at ever level of government there are chinese sleepers that are from 'Hong Kong' or 'First Generation' chinese.

Julie Su, Acting United States Secretary of Labor

Crazy huh?

Su was born in Madison, Wisconsin, as a second-generation American. Her mother, unable to afford a ticket on a passenger ship, came to the United States on a cargo ship from China

12 posted on 11/30/2024 10:09:14 PM PST by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

Before I bought my house, I lived in an apartment in Baltimore. There were MANY Chinese graduate students living in the complex, most of them working on PhDs and MDs. Who knows who they were really preparing to work for?


13 posted on 11/30/2024 11:14:39 PM PST by EinNYC
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: bitt

The U.S. federal science and technology as well as that of many universities has been thoroughly infiltrated & potentially compromised by the chicoms beginning with the Clinton administration...

They were merely competing with the Soviet-based communists already fully implanted in the State Department, universities, and the MSM beginning in the 1930s and accelerating during the LBJ & peanut farmer administrations...

When Bush W, Obama, and Biden came along, the chicoms had easy pickings in all important walks of american life...


14 posted on 12/01/2024 12:17:46 AM PST by SuperLuminal
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bitt
The cyber espionage operation resulted in stolen telecommunications data, including sensitive call records and compromised communications from top officials in both major U.S. presidential campaigns.

Sounds like somebody is concerned that their communications might be legally troublesome.

I'm also thinking that such worry is restricted to one party, not both.

15 posted on 12/01/2024 12:29:50 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: EinNYC

These two both received their degrees in China prior to moving here.

My daughter learned Chinese in college and spent some time there. She heads a software design team for one of the big international pharmaceutical companies. Thus we had a common link for conversation.

Research Triangle Park near Raleigh NC is an international melting pot due to all the high tech companies. The immigrants come here on EB1 Visas.


16 posted on 12/01/2024 2:04:17 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: EinNYC

I sometimes find it amazing how quickly the news and information cycle “forget” things. Critical things, like how there was an entire task force investigating college Chinese students for ties to China’s military. And found them arrested them, deported them, etc.

Funny how doing a brief search the internet of things only goes back to just after 2020, even on page 18 of the search.
Now, that is something weird. Like as we approach this infiltration of infrastructure, the information of just a few years ago is gone or difficult to find.

This should be of concern for a lot of citizens. But then, we might start asking too many questions of our own government.

Republicans Deepen Scrutiny of Universities’ Ties to China
https://ww2.aip.org/fyi/2020/republicans-deepen-scrutiny-universities-ties-china

But it is queer that these very ties all throughout our nation have been and were being investigated long before this article was ever written. This was all happening even under the Obama time in office. You can’t find it now in the interwebs.


17 posted on 12/01/2024 2:55:23 AM PST by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

What questions did you ask them?


18 posted on 12/01/2024 4:19:14 AM PST by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: bitt

So - what are we doing about it - other than “being concerned”?


19 posted on 12/01/2024 5:09:16 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: trebb

Bending over for the Chinese….our elected officials and government has been selling us off for decades for the mighty red communist dollar. They sold off our children’s future for greed. Our farm land is now theirs and no corrupt judge would rule against them! An army of thousands have infiltrated our borders while FJB and his cronies were getting rich along with the NGO and cartels. As we stand now our nation is FKED! Hopefully Trump and his administration can clean America but the is one monkey wrench that will be thrown into the mechanics… the EVIL LEFT ANTI AMERICAN HATERS POS who will fight him tooth and nail to destroy our nation! They rather turn this nation over to our communist enemies than defend her! Good luck thinking it’s gonna be a smooth transition January 20. When the enemy is very very quiet you know they’re planning and strategizing behind closed doors how to destroy, with the help of the RINOS of course, to bring down trump’s administration and bring this nation to its knees! Don’t ever doubt the evil hearts of corrupt men and women.


20 posted on 12/01/2024 5:28:15 AM PST by RoseofTexas
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-30 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson