Chinese hackers are targeting “critical communications” infrastructure in stealth-based attacks, Microsoft has warned.
Ma Mingyan/China News Service via Getty ImagesChinese hackers are looking at ways of cutting communications between the U.S. and Asia in the event of a crisis, Microsoft believes.
From a military perspective cutting communications, or even just slowing or constraining information, between the United States and allies in Asia in the case of a surprise attack could help achieve an early advantage.published on Wednesday, Microsoft warned that bad actors from the state-sponsored Volt Typhoon hacking group had used sophisticated hacking techniques to access essential infrastructure in Guam — an American overseas territory — as well as the United States proper.
“As with any observed nation-state actor activity, Microsoft has directly notified targeted or compromised customers, providing them with important information needed to secure their environments,” the release goes on to say.from various spy agencies across the Western world such as America’s NSA and the UK’s GCHQ, which has warned private companies to be aware that their infrastructure could end up the target of CCP security agents.
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