US infrastructure infiltrated by Chinese hackers

[New Sancai Compilation and First Release] Not long ago, FBI Director Christopher Christopher pointed out that Chinese hackers have been lurking in the control computers of many important infrastructures in the United States in order to activate commands at the appropriate time to paralyze or destroy the facilities. . But the FBI and other government agencies are working behind the scenes to counter this threat, which is imminent.

According to U.S. media reports, FBI Director Christopher Christopher said at a summit titled "Vanderbilt Modern Conflicts and Emerging Threats in 2024" that in order to dominate the world stage, China It is actively involved in every sphere of the world and attempts to establish countervailing forces.

Christopher said that China intends to be able to carry out some degree of damage to the basic livelihood facilities of the United States at critical moments in the future in order to cause panic among the American people and destroy the United States' will to resist. Cyber espionage is one of its methods, although it is unclear whether China's actions are intended to prevent the United States from supporting Taiwan when it launches operations against Taiwan. However, he also said that China seems to be preparing for the planned action against Taiwan in 2027, and China is interested in this matter.

Obviously, the predictions that have been widely circulated for some time, saying that "a crisis will occur between China and Taiwan in 2027" are not groundless.

He said China's attacks on U.S. critical infrastructure were widespread and merciless. They use the information from these control facilities and the spy programs they deploy to give them the ability to destroy critical U.S. infrastructure at a time of their choosing.

At the beginning of this year, Christopher already warned about the threat of Chinese hackers at a hearing held by the House of Representatives China Special Committee. At the time, he pointed out that Chinese hackers were targeting critical infrastructure in the United States, including control systems for oil and natural gas pipelines, power supply network management systems, water plant control equipment, and transportation management systems. Among them are more than two dozen pipeline operating companies.

At the same time, he also said that there are more hackers related to China than there are cyber officers in the FBI investigating them, and these hackers target the control mechanism of the infrastructure rather than finance. For example, he said that hackers spent fifteen minutes stealing information related to facility control and monitoring systems, but skipped financial-related data. This fully shows that their goals are more sinister than stealing financial information.

Christopher also added that China has also continued to steal intellectual property, technology and research results from nearly every major U.S. industry.

(Compiled by: Mulian)

(Editor: Jiang Qiming)

(Source of the article: Compiled and published by New Sancai)