Chinese hackers spent up to 5 years in US networks: Cyber officials Chinese hackers aimed to "launch destructive cyber-attacks," officials said.

abcnews.go.com ^ | February 8, 2024 | Luke Barr

[daniel1212]

"The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) assess that People's Republic of China (PRC) state sponsored cyber actors are seeking to preposition themselves on IT networks for disruptive or destructive cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure in the event of a major crisis or conflict with the United States," an alert released by the agencies earlier this week said...

"CISA and its U.S. Government partners have confirmed that this group of PRC state-sponsored cyber actors has compromised entities across multiple critical infrastructure sectors in cyberspace, including communications, energy, transportation, and water and wastewater, in the United States and its territories," a release about the incident said...

the FBI used a court order to disrupt Volt Typhoon actors from their hacking operation.

"We know that what we have found is the tip of the iceberg," Goldstein said.

[daniel1212]

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[LouAvul]

China is our known enemy. Yet we’ve been buying their goods for decades. What’s wrong with this picture?

[GOPJ]

If China does this we won't be the only country boycotting their 'goods'....

[Arlis]

I truly believe that if we go to war with China, they will cripple our nation internally through hacking and destructive systems to all our essential infrastructure that will bring far worse damage than a nuclear attack.

We are under their control.

[daniel1212]

China is our known enemy. Yet we’ve been buying their goods for decades. What’s wrong with this picture?

Since the West, under the premise that helping China economically would promote democracy, which itself is imagined to mean freedom, (see Three former presidents support permanent trade status for China : https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4152373/posts?page=2#2 ), plus increased regs and wages, then even with 100% tariffs, most of the low-cost, under $20 goods that come from China would not be manufactured in the US anytime soon, and those that are usually depend upon component from China. .

Where does the US even make the many many low-cost products China spins out, or what US products do not depend on China-made parts?

As one who is involved in evangelical ministry, part of which is working on bikes for free, with parts at cost, then I buy many things online.

Including

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@2,25

@$1.51 (Temu)

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@$2,77 (Alieexpress

[Captainpaintball]

I truly believe that if we go to war with China, they will cripple our nation internally through hacking and destructive systems to all our essential infrastructure that will bring far worse damage than a nuclear attack.

That is what I have been saying for years., too. Fentanyl in ALL the aquifers. ALL the power substations destroyed.

THESE people are who ICE should be going after. Instead of going after Juan Valdez Jr., and pointing her gun at an ICE agent's head, Kristi should be knocking down the doors of the the Chinese scumbags sitting and waiting.

use AI to find EVERY chinese person living within 10 miles of a water supply or substation. get them. NOW.

[Pontiac]

“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”

― Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Lenin could not have been more wrong.

The communist are selling us the rope that they will hang us with.

They are selling us the transformers that they will use to cripple our power grid.

We are paying their hackers to seed our communications networks with viruses, spyware and backdoors that they will use to spy on us, steal our data and shut down our networks.

They may not need to fire a shot in the coming war because we surrendered years ago when we gave them Most Favored Nation trading status.

[dljordan]

‘They were on our radar’.