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Chinese hackers are developing the "ability to physically wreak havoc connected our captious infrastructure astatine a clip of its choosing," FBI manager Christopher Wray said this week.
He added that the hackers are waiting "for conscionable the close infinitesimal to woody a devastating blow."
The hacking campaign, known arsenic Volt Typhoon, has embedded itself successfully successful respective American captious infrastructure companies that see telecommunications, vigor and water, and others, helium said.
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Chinese hackers are processing the "ability to physically wreak havoc connected our captious infrastructure astatine a clip of its choosing," FBI manager Christopher Wray said this week. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
"Its program is to onshore debased blows against civilian infrastructure to effort to induce panic," Wray said Thursday astatine the 2024 Vanderbilt Summit connected Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats.
A Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson said this week that Volt Typhoon is portion of a transgression ramsonware radical and is not related to the government.
"Some successful the US person been utilizing origin-tracing of cyberattacks arsenic a instrumentality to deed and framework China, claiming the US to beryllium the unfortunate portion it's the different mode round, and politicizing cybersecurity issues," the Chinese embassy successful Washington, D.C. said successful a abstracted statement.
The hacking campaign, known arsenic Volt Typhoon, has embedded itself successfully successful respective American captious infrastructure companies that see telecommunications, vigor and water, and others. (Photo Illustration by Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Microsoft and Google information experts have antecedently linked the hackers to China and Wray said the effort is connected to U.S.-Chinese tensions astir Taiwan.
Wray gave a akin informing to lawmakers connected Capitol Hill successful February, saying Chinese hackers are intending to "wreak havoc and origin real-world harm to American citizens and communities."
Wray and different authorities officials were testifying successful beforehand of the House Select Committee connected the Chinese Communist Party for a proceeding titled "The Chinese Community Party Cyber Threat to the American Homeland and National Security."
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"There has been acold excessively small nationalist absorption connected the information that PRC [People’s Republic of China] hackers are targeting our captious infrastructure – our h2o attraction plants, our electrical grid, our lipid and earthy state pipelines, our proscription systems. And the hazard that poses to each American requires our attraction now," Wray told lawmakers astatine the time.
China has denied that the hackers are connected to the government, though Google and Microsoft experts person antecedently linked them. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Wray besides said that "today, and virtually each day" Chinese hackers are "actively attacking our economical security, engaging successful wholesale theft of our innovation, and our idiosyncratic and firm data."
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"And they don’t conscionable deed our information and economy. They people our freedoms, reaching wrong our borders, crossed America, to silence, coerce, and endanger our citizens and residents," Wray testified.
Fox News' Greg Norman and Reuters contributed to this report.
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