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FBI SAYS CHINESE HACKERS PREPARING TO ATTACK US INFRASTRUCTURE

By Christopher Bing
April 18, 202411:12 PM GMT+2Updated a day ago
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FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the House Approbations
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Nashville, Tennessee, April 18 (Reuters) - Chinese government-linked hackers
have burrowed into U.S. critical infrastructure and are waiting "for just the
right moment to deal a devastating blow," FBI Director Christopher Wray said on
Thursday.
An ongoing Chinese hacking campaign known as Volt Typhoon has successfully
gained access to numerous American companies in telecommunications, energy,
water and other critical sectors, with 23 pipeline operators targeted, Wray said
in a speech at Vanderbilt University.
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China is developing the "ability to physically wreak havoc on our critical
infrastructure at a time of its choosing," Wray said at the 2024 Vanderbilt
Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats. "Its plan is to land low blows
against civilian infrastructure to try to induce panic."
Wray said it was difficult to determine the intent of this cyber pre-positioning
which was aligned with China's broader intent to deter the U.S. from defending
Taiwan.
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China claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and has never
renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control. Taiwan
strongly objects to China's sovereignty claims and says only the island's people
can decide their future.
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is part of a criminal ransomware group.

In a statement, China's Embassy in Washington referred back to the MFA
spokesperson's comment. "Some in the US have been using origin-tracing of
cyberattacks as a tool to hit and frame China, claiming the US to be the victim
while it's the other way round, and politicizing cybersecurity issues."
Wray said China's hackers operated a series of botnets - constellations of
compromised personal computers and servers around the globe - to conceal their
malicious cyber activities. Private sector American technology and cybersecurity
companies previously attributed Volt Typhoon to China, including reports by
security researchers with Microsoft and Google.
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