Posted on 12/14/2023 6:22:48 AM PST by Red Badger
The goal, the report describes, is to find ways to “sow panic and chaos or snarl logistics in the event of a U.S.-China conflict in the Pacific.”
China’s threat to America now includes schemes to disrupt power and water supplies, communications and even transportation systems, according to officials cited in a new report.
Experts quoted by the Washington Post explained that hackers linked to China’s People’s Liberation Army already have succeeded in breaching “the computer systems of about two dozen critical entities over the past year.”
The goal, the report describes, is to find ways to “sow panic and chaos or snarl logistics in the event of a U.S.-China conflict in the Pacific.”
Those in a bull’s-eye already include a water utility in Hawaii, a port along the West Coast and an oil and gas pipeline, those experts told the publication.
“The hackers also attempted to break into the operator of Texas’s power grid, which operates independently from electrical systems in the rest of the country,” the report noted.
The report, citing anonymous sources, said there also were several targets outside the United States.
The report noted no industrial controls so far have been disrupted, but the fact that Hawaii has been targeted suggests the intent to impact America’s operation of its Pacific Fleet, such as shipping troops or equipment.
The report said there previously were reports of a “Volt Typhoon” campaign being conducted against the U.S.
“It is very clear that Chinese attempts to compromise critical infrastructure are in part to pre-position themselves to be able to disrupt or destroy that critical infrastructure in the event of a conflict, to either prevent the United States from being able to project power into Asia or to cause societal chaos inside the United States — to affect our decision-making around a crisis,” charged Brandon Wales, who is with the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
“That is a significant change from Chinese cyber activity from seven to 10 years ago that was focused primarily on political and economic espionage.”
An official with the National Security Agency said in the report Volt Typhoon activity is focused on “indo-Pacific region” targets.
Joe McReynolds, of the Jamestown Foundation, explained the hackers are trying to uncover a way to get into the computer systems without detection.
The report noted the Office of the Director of National Intelligence already has admitted the China is capable of delivering cyberattacks that would create disruption for America.
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Well the US has a President and an Obama Criminal Gang at the White House that cares nothing about Security
Considering that China hacked into Biden a long time ago and Biden, via the Democrat Party, hacked into and politicized the entire Deep State and Intel Community, hacking into utilities and energy operations seems like small potatoes.
Utility grids present a security liability. Every individual home and business should have independent utilities, whether nuclear, geothermal, etc. Water is more difficult, but those homes with wells have a good start.
I’ve inquired as to whether fuel pumps have a manual override and not received an answer. You might have a generator, but what do you do when fuel runs out and you cannot pump more?
This is one reason I have tons of solar (81% of the power we consumed in the past 365 days was from solar -- with me pulling the other 19% from the grid, almost all of that in the winter). Although I'll admit I wasn't thinking about security against China cutting us off from energy. I figured the Dims would beat China to it.
Maybe these things shouldn’t be connected to the internet
Cuse me… if say someone in a nice shiny suit in a political position gave the Chinese the passwords, is that still considered Hacking?
China paid Bidens and Marxist Dems for the privilege.
No, that is treason.................
And they have been doing food chain disruptions with all the fires at chicken farms and pork processing plants.
One day fiction will become reality because Fedgov is a liability and Americans are dumb down.
I’ve worked for several utilities. Any reasonably run one knows in their bones that there should be no physical connection (including WiFi, Bluetooth, etc) between the operations systems and any outside system that can be connected to the WWW. No, not some damned firewall — NO PHYSICAL CONNECTION.
If you then control who can touch the control systems the only way your utility can be hurt is by an inside guy. Preventing hacking is relatively easy.
Need to update the operation’s system? Then, get off your fat butt and walk over there and do the install, yourself. No dialing in from outside.
It is like no voting system can have a physical connection to the WWW. Oh, oopsie. That was permitted in the Michigan Dominion systems. Imagine my surprise.
Ain’t technology grand it’s fail safe huh.
I so remember when Nancy Pelosi forced the commandeer of military logistics in all of Europe to appear before her in the house. His travel and methods of communication were compromised after that. It’s way past time this compromised traitor got hers.
Never mind they’ve bought up land around power stations.
Wait till they change chemical compositions in the cities drinking water. Kill millions before they find out it’s even happening.
And our elites want to eliminate fossil fuels while China hacks into and shuts down our power grid. At least we’ll habe practice.
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