Chinese hackers preparing for conflict with US, cyber official says

Chinese hackers are positioning themselves successful U.S. captious infrastructure IT networks for a imaginable clash with the United States, a apical American cybersecurity authoritative said Friday.

Morgan Adamski, enforcement manager of U.S. Cyber Command, said Chinese-linked cyber operations are aimed astatine gaining an vantage successful lawsuit of a large struggle with the United States.

Officials person warned that China-linked hackers person compromised IT networks and taken steps to transportation retired disruptive attacks successful the lawsuit of a conflict. Their activities see gaining entree to cardinal networks to alteration imaginable disruptions specified arsenic manipulating heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems successful server rooms, oregon disrupting captious vigor and h2o controls, U.S. officials said earlier this year.

Beijing routinely denies cyber operations targeting U.S. entities. The Chinese Embassy successful Washington did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Adamski was speaking to researchers astatine the Cyberwarcon information league successful Arlington, Virginia. On Thursday, U.S. Senator Mark Warner told The Washington Post a suspected China-linked hack connected U.S. telecommunications firms was the worst telecom hack successful U.S. history.

That cyber espionage operation, dubbed “Salt Typhoon,” has included stolen telephone records data, compromised communications of apical officials of some large U.S. statesmanlike campaigns earlier the November 5 election, and telecommunications accusation related to U.S. instrumentality enforcement requests, the FBI said recently.

The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are providing method assistance and accusation to imaginable targets, the bureau said.

Adamski said Friday that the U.S. authorities has "executed globally synchronized activities, some offensively and defensively minded, that are laser-focused connected degrading and disrupting PRC cyber operations worldwide."

Public examples see exposing operations, sanctions, indictments, instrumentality enforcement actions and cybersecurity advisories, with input from aggregate countries, Adamski said.