Wang Jimin
Wang Jimin
[New Sancai Compilation First Edition] U.S. and British officials warned on May 14 that cyber threats from China are becoming increasingly serious. The White House cyber director said that the Chinese Communist Party is capable of causing serious damage in cyberspace, and the head of the British spy agency warned Said that this is an "epoch-making" challenge.
"Axis of Dictatorship"
"China poses a real and growing cyber threat to the UK," Anne Keast-Butler, director of GCHQ's eavesdropping agency, told a security conference in the central British city of Birmingham. road risk."
She said responding to Beijing's activities was a top priority for GCHQ and that China's coercive and destabilizing actions threatened international norms.
Prime Minister Sunak said on Monday that Britain faced threats from "an axis of authoritarian states including Russia, Iran, North Korea and China" and British prosecutors charged three men with assisting Hong Kong's foreign intelligence service in the UK. China dismissed the case as fabricated.
Britain said on Tuesday it had summoned the Chinese ambassador and said reports of cyberattacks and espionage were unacceptable.
Keister Butler, who will be appointed head of Britain's Government Communications Headquarters in 2023, echoed Sunak's statement, saying that the next few years will be dangerous and transformative.
"Russia and Iran pose direct threats, but China is the 'epoch-making' challenge," she said.
"Cause serious damage"
U.S. National Cyber Director Harry Corker told the conference that Chinese military hackers are bypassing U.S. defenses in cyberspace and targeting U.S. interests on an "unprecedented scale."
"In a crisis or conflict situation, China could use its pre-positioned cyber capabilities to wreak havoc on civilian infrastructure and deter U.S. military operations," he said.
Last month, U.S. officials confronted Beijing over a massive cyber espionage campaign dubbed "Volt Typhoon," in which Chinese hackers used a vast global network of infected PCs and servers to break into dozens of A U.S. critical infrastructure organization.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said this was related to China's broader intention to prevent the United States from defending Taiwan. A spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Typhoon Volta has nothing to do with the Chinese government.
spy, hacker
The arrests of alleged Chinese spies and accusations that Chinese state-backed hackers stole data from Britain's election watchdog and conducted surveillance operations have heightened tensions in Britain's relationship with China.
Sunak said last month that Chinese government-affiliated agencies had conducted "malicious cyber activity" against British lawmakers and British media, citing government sources who said China was behind the hack of Britain's Armed Forces payment system. Beijing says the accusations are ridiculous.
(Compiled by: Wang Jimin)
(Editor: Jiang Qiming)
(Source of the article: Compiled and published by New Sancai)
