Chinese state media went into overdrive this week to distract from revelations of a massive state-linked Chinese cyberattack on U.S. infrastructure, howling that China is actually the world’s biggest victim of cybercrime and America is the greatest threat to global information security.
China’s state-run Global Times studiously avoided mentioning the bombshell reports about Volt Typhoon , the Chinese state hacking group disrupted by Microsoft security experts and the FBI last week.
Volt Typhoon’s hackers penetrated critical infrastructure systems, including ports, oil pipelines, and power grids, then lurked in waiting without stealing data or causing damage – presumably waiting for an order from Beijing to cause havoc if the U.S. was drawn into a confrontation with China. The likely theater for such a confrontation would be Taiwan, whose infrastructure was also compromised by the Volt Typhoon operation.
Leaving all of that unsaid, the Global Times used a Wednesday editorial […]
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